Lisa holds a Ballet Diploma from the Grande Ecole de Danse in Bern, Switzerland and a BFA and MFA Degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, CA. She currently serves as Associate Professor and Artistic Director for the Department of Dance at Kennesaw State University in Metro Atlanta.

As a solo artist and choreographer Lisa has performed extensively throughout Los Angeles as well as nationally and internationally. She was a recipient of an Individual Excellence Award by the Ohio Arts Council for her solo work, has been honored with a Lester Horton Award for outstanding achievement in choreography in Los Angeles, as well as voted best female dancer of the year 2004 by the Beverly Hills Outlook in Los Angeles.

Lisa has free lanced with many dance companies, starting with the Swiss Chamber Ballet in Basel, Switzerland,  Hysterica Dance Company, the Francisco Martinez Dance Theater, Kin Dance Company, and many more in L.A. She also has worked with Opera Cleveland, both as a performer and choreographer, and NYC based Phantom Limbs, as a dancer and puppeteer.

Furthermore, as a choreographer, Lisa has created several works for her students at Kennesaw State University. In 2018 her work “Suspended Visions” created for her students was selected to perform at the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington DC as part of the national GALA Concert by the American College Dance Festival (ACDA). In the past she also created original works for Georgia Ballet and Full Radius Dance in Atlanta, and was commissioned by the San Jose, CA based filmmaker John T. Williams. In Cleveland, OH she choreographed for Dancing Wheels, Verb Ballets, and the former Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theater. Further, she had the opportunity to present several evening length solo concerts, both in L.A. and Cleveland, OH.

As a filmmaker her award-winning work has been presented in festivals over the globe, and since the pandemic has become her main source of artistic expression. Since 2020 her work has been included in several festivals, among them, MAD and Mixtape Film Festivals in Atlanta, GA, the Portland, OR Short film Festival, Burnt Video and Experimental Film Festival in Montreal Canada, Luminous Frames Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Maracay International Film and Video Festival in Venezuela, 7th Art and Independent Film Festival in India, Cambio international Film festival in Berlin, Germany, and Cinema e Arte Con TAineR in Bergamo, Italy.