Teaching Faculty

Christina Lindhout is a professional dancer, choreographer, and director based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has over 25 years of training in classical ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, and tap. She has danced professionally since she was 17 years old and has performed many principal roles both locally and internationally to critical acclaim. Christina performed as a Company Member with Ohio Contemporary Ballet from 2014-2020, joining the company on several national and international tours. She has also choreographed for the company several times from 2015-2023. Christina served as the Coordinator of Community Engagement at the Ohio Contemporary Ballet Center for Dance for five years and was an integral part of the Center’s inception and growth. In addition to performing, teaching, and choreographing across the country, Christina currently teaches at Baldwin Wallace University as an Assistant Professor in the Dance Department. In 2020, Christina premiered a full-length choreographic and directorial work, FEAST: a ballet, for which she and the creative team were awarded a Satellite Fund grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation through SPACES gallery. To date, FEAST has been the recipient of awards all over the world, including Best Documentary at the Virgin Spring film festival in Kolkata, India. Christina’s newest work, snack, was named as an official selection of the 2022 CAN Triennial. She has also had choreography selected to be performed at Playhouse Square, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Cuyahoga County Community College. Christina is the recipient of a 2020 Akron Soul Train Fellowship, a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Choreography, as well as the Summit Artspace Arts Alive Award as the 2023 Outstanding Artist in Dance.