LDI 2017

Christina R. Giannelli has created lighting for new ballets by Julia Adam, Christopher Bruce, Jorma Elo, Donald McHale, Kenneth McMillan, Trey McIntyre, Dennis Nahat, Ben Stevenson, Glen Tetley, Natalie Weir, and Stanton Welch, as well as contemporary works by Houston based choreographers Teresa Chapman, Sara Draper, Karen Stokes, Dominic Walsh, Jennifer Wood, among others. She has designed extensively for ballet, opera and theater companies through out the United States and abroad and has served as Resident Lighting Designer for Houston Grand Opera, Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, Houston Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera’s 2011/2012 season. She takes great pride in the recreation of repertory and delights in lighting new works and productions that blend multiple art forms. Upcoming projects include a new Swan Lake for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Loving Clara with Mercury-The Orchestra, an interactive lighting experience for a public loggia in San Francisco, and UNLOCK’D, a new musical. She is the founder of Dance Source Houston, a service organization that supports and promotes Contemporary Dance in Houston, TX, and is currently creating a residence there for visiting artists.