SUSAN VISHMID

Creative Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Executive Producer

Susan Vishmid is Freaks With Lines® Creative Director and Choreographer. Susan Vishmid. At age four, Ms. Vishmid began her early training at the Westside School of Ballet and through scholarships continued her professional training at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School and The Rock School.

Ms. Vishmid's professional ballet career includes Pennsylvania Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera, Chicago Festival Ballet, Napoles Ballet Theatre, California Contemporary Ballet, City of Angels Ballet, California Riverside Ballet, Key West Ballet, Coast City Ballet and San Gorgonio Ballet. In addition to teaching ballet Ms. Vishmid is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor running her business as Movement by Susy. Ms. Vishmid is a USC alumni (cum laude) with a BA in Communication and Philosophy.

SADIE BLACK

Dancer, Choreographer, Co-Producer

Sadie Black is a freelance artist from and based in Los Angeles. She dances currently with Barak Ballet, Clairobscur Dance, Luminario Ballet and Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet. She has been a guest artist, dancing principal roles in The Nutcracker with Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet, Southern California Ballet Theater, & Pacific Dance Center. She trained with Riverside Ballet Arts, Houston Ballet Academy, and the School of American Ballet. She has been a company dancer with Texas Ballet Theater, Columbia City Ballet and Los Angeles Ballet.

Sadie is a choreographer and ballet teacher for students of all ages including adults and a yoga, barre and fitness teacher. She created a barre fitness class, “Ballet Fit Body” which she currently teaches at Equinox. Sadie is also a ballet coach for students competing at Youth America Grand Prix and other several dance competitions. This is Sadie's second season with the Freaks.

HANNAH KEENE

Dancer

Hannah Keene of Wellesley, Massachusetts began her training at the Boston Ballet School from the age of 5 to 17 before joining Boston Ballet II for two seasons. She then danced with the Kansas City Ballet for three seasons and joined the Los Angeles Ballet in 2017. This is Hannah's second season with the Freaks.

ADAM BLOODGOOD

Dancer

Originally from Seattle, Adam Bloodgood is a graduate of Pacific Northwest Ballet School where he trained for 12 years under the direction of Francia Russell, succeeded by Peter Boal. Adam has performed as a principal guest artist in every major region of the country in addition to dancing as a full-time company member with Ballet Idaho, Dayton Ballet and City Ballet of San Diego. Adam has performed leading roles in work by George Balanchine, Stephen Mills, Peter Anastos, W. Earle Smith, Betsey Wistrich, and Karen Russo Burke, among others.

In 2017, Adam originated the role of Romeo in Contempo Arts Productions’ Romeo and Juliet in Los Angeles. Adam Bloodgood also works as a musician, journalist and entrepreneur; he is the guitarist for Floating Pockets, editor/correspondent for Public Occurrences Network, a Pacific Northwest based publication, and host of Clear Perspective with Adam Bloodgood, a talk show web-series.This is Adam's third season with the Freaks.

OTTAVIO TADDEI

Dancer

Originally from Italy, Ottavio has been performing in dance productions, operas, television shows and musicals in Italy, Qatar, Oman and the U.S., hitting some of the most prestigious stages of the world including the MET, Walt Disney Music Hall, The ‪Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Royal Opera House of Muscat, The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and The Pasadena Playhouse. 

Ottavio has performed principal roles in repertory ballet such as Firebird, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet and a modern production of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Body Parts, QatarMarine Festival, I Promessi Sposi the musical, Lo Spettacolo Dell’Acqua and many more. Ottavio also worked in many operas as a dancer and actor such as Prince Igor, Moise et Pharaon, Die Zauberflöte, LaBoheme, Hansel and Gretel, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Nabucco, Rigolettoto. This is Ottavio's second season with the Freaks.

AJ ABRAMS

Dancer/Ballet Master

AJ Abrams was born in Long Beach, CA. Growing up, he trained with Anthony and Terri Sellars of Orange County Dance Center and Keith and Linda Clifton of Clifton Dance Project. Other training included schools all over the US such as Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Rock school of Pennsylvania Ballet and School of American Ballet. Mr. Abrams started his professional dance career under the direction of Stephen Mills at Ballet Austin. During his time in Austin he was given the opportunity to dance principal roles such as Albrecht in Giselle, Sugar Plum Cavalier in the Nutcracker and a featured role in Balanchine’s Who Care’s.

After leaving Ballet Austin, AJ started his freelance career in Los Angeles. He has worked with Luminario Ballet, Barak Ballet, Festival Ballet Theatre and Ballet Red. He has also been featured in music videos with Coldplay and Florence and the machine. Most recently, he danced and traveled the world aboard a cruise ship with Royal Caribbean Cruises. Now, back in Los Angeles Mr. Abrams has been asked to join the new emerging company Freaks with Lines as a dancer/choreographer/ballet master. This is AJ's first season with the Freaks.

MICHELLE LEBOWSKI

Dancer

Miss Lebowski began dancing at the late age of 13. Michelle later went on to train with the Joffrey Ballet and the Colorado Ballet. She has performed and learned excerpts of ballets such as Paquita, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Esmerelda, Prince Igor, Bournaville's Conservatoire, Balanchine's Walpurgisnacht, and Arpino's Viva Vivaldi. The first company Michelle had the chance to perform with was the Indianapolis Ballet. She performed in the corps de ballet of ballets such as: Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and Serenade, The Nutcracker, Paquita, Carmen, and Swan Lake.

Today Michelle is currently dancing with two companies, LA Dance Moves and Freaks With Lines in Los Angeles. While establishing herself as a freelance dancer in LA, she has also enrolled in business school as well. In the fall of 2019 she created the company Ballerinas of Los Angeles. There she has cultivated a safe and diverse community of ballet dancers throughout Los Angeles. Her goal is to provide a spotlight for ballet dancers in Los Angeles that would provide work for members in her community.  This is Michelle's first season with the Freaks.

BREANNE WILSON

Dancer

Breanne Wilson grew up in Calgary, Alberta and received a BFA in dance from the University of Arizona School of dance with a complimenting minor in Business. She now resides in Los Angeles and is represented by Go 2 Talent Agency. Most recently, Breanne returned from performing in the 25thAnniversary production of Art on Ice in Switzerland touring the country with Aloe Blacc, Rebecca Ferguson, Bligg and Bastian Baker. Other recent credits include La Traviata with LA Opera performing as a Principal dancer and Singin’ in the Rain with McCoy Rigby Entertainment where she performed the iconic dance role of “the girl in the green dress” originated by Cyd Charisse. Before moving to Los Angeles,Breanne was fortunate enough to perform as a company member with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City for three years. She performed several principal roles with the company and completed 3 European tours performing throughout Germany, Switzerland and France. Following her time with Odyssey, Breanne also performed as the lead aerialist in King Triton’s Concert where she played Ariel at Tokyo Disney Sea.She has danced works by George Balanchine, Sean Cheesman, Spencer Liff, Kitty McNamee, Mia Michaels, Larry Keigwin, Gary Chryst, Ann Reinking, Sherry Zunker, Bonnie Story, Ernie Flatt, Garrett Smith, and Derryl Yeager. This is Breanne's first season with the Freaks.

SOFIA ROCHIN

Dancer

Sofia Rochin was born in Malibu, California and began her dance training at the age of seven at California Dance Theatre in the Conejo Valley and has performed in a variety of classical ballets and original productions with CDT's performance company, Pacific Festival Ballet. Before graduating in 2016, Sofia spent her summers studying with Joffrey Chicago, Miami City Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Northwest Dance Project, Ballet X, and SALT Contemporary Dance. Sofia attended SUNY Purchase College in the Conservatory of Dance as a Ballet Major and Psychology Minor and has performed classical works including George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, in addition to original contemporary productions like Norbert De La Cruz III’s Lunar. 

After completing her collegiate education, Sofia joined Indianapolis Ballet as a trainee in their Professional Level Program, where she focused more specifically on the Balanchine Style. Sofia performed in George Balanchine 's Who Cares, The FourTemperaments and The Nutcracker, as well as a variety of original choreography ballets by Victoria Lyras. Sofia has performed around the world from her hometown of Southern California to New York City to France with Festival Dansez Maintenant and Eastern Europe with the Estonian National Ballet. She now resides in Los Angeles, furthering her dance experiences and passions. This is Sofia's first season with the Freaks.

BRANDON BINKLY

Dancer

Brandon was born in Panorama City and trained Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, The Colburn School and San Francisco Ballet School. Most recently Brandon collaborated with San Bernardino Symphony and performed in the Royal Symphony Ball in Houston, Texas. Brandon's professional career includes the Los Angeles Ballet, Festival Ballet Theatre, Nevada Ballet, and Long Beach Ballet in addition to various television appearances, music videos advertising campaigns. Among them, Glee (Season 4 Finale),  Ray Ban's 50th Anniversary, M Stevens Dance Wear and Kendrick Lamar/Ice Cube/George Clinton's Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on you? 

When Brandon is not dancing he enjoys weight training while reading cosmic literature. Brandon also finds time to ride his bike, paint, play drums and peel radishes. This is Brandon's first season with the Freaks.

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