Meet Artistic Director ANASTASIA WATERS

Anastasia Waters (Fort Worth, Texas), received her early dance training at the Ballet Conservatory, and as a member of LakeCities Ballet Theatre. After High School, she went on to receive her BFA in Modern Dance from Texas Christian University (2010). At TCU, she was awarded the Jerry Bywaters Cochran Scholarship for excellence in modern dance, and received the emerging choreographers award for her choreography, "Bedtime Story" and "Omnipotence". To further her training, she attended the American Dance Festival in North Carolina (2009), and Bates Dance Festival in Maine (2010) working with renowned artists such as Doug Varone, and Omar Carrum. Anastasia has taught at a vareity of schools in the DFW metroplex, and is currently the Contemporary/Modern instructor at Ballet Conservatory, and Resident Choreographer for LakeCities Ballet Theatre. She has been commissioned to choreograph workes on a variety of schools and companies as well. She founded imPULSE dance project in 2012, and has been nurturing the growth of this company for 12+ years now. As Artistic Director she has had choreography accepted into a variety of festivals, and produced over 10 dance projects that have featured a number of world premieres. It is her life's passion to create and create with other passionate artists!