Testimonials:

"Risa's performance was fabulous! She offers an artistic, dramatic and graceful performance that kept our audience talking about the show for the rest of the evening."
Amy-Marie Lemanski
Vice-President, Education
Minnesota Chapter, MPI
Meeting Planner, Boston Scientific

"Risa's aerial performance captures the imagination. It is a hypnotic blend of theater, dance and music performed overhead on the sheerest of fabric. Absolutely wonderful to behold."
Roger Miller
Creative Director
REM Video & Event Company

"Risa is bold, stunning and electrifying...she overwhelms her audience with sensuality and passion".
Daniel A. LaFond
Special Events Midwest


Besides training in Berlin, Germany, with internationally renowned circus artists, Risa has performed and taught dance including aerial, ballet and modern in the Twin Cities for the past eight years. Her dance performances have received several grants and awards, including a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Grant and selected three times to take part in Choreographers' Evening at the Walker Art Center.

She is interested in working for your company either as an aerial artist or a dancer. She is able to create and adapt performance pieces to fit almost any occasion: from the opening of an exhibition to an award ceremony to a fashion show.  She is prepared to work with corporations, marketing firms, nonprofit agencies, and other organizations to develop evocative and exciting productions that will highlight their products or services.

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