About Us
Beautiful Freaks, Flawless Lines
Freaks With Lines is a Los Angeles dance company and training platform founded by Susy Vishmid and built for dancers who are obsessed with the work and uninterested in the gatekeeping.
FWL exists at the intersection of classical rigor and creative irreverence. We collaborate with dancers, choreographers, and artists across disciplines to produce work that lives within the ballet tradition and disrupts it at the same time
A Freak doesn't refer to a type of dancer.
It's a state of mind: passionate, precise, and completely consumed by the pursuit of creating the most perfect lines physically possible.
We are the creators and the consumers of our own art. The story, no matter how abstract, is always in the lines.
Susy Vishmid, Founding Freak
Susan (Susy) Vishmid is the Artistic Director, Choreographer and Executive Producer at Freaks With Lines, an avant garde ballet company based in Los Angeles. Susy began her early training at the Westside School of Ballet and through scholarships continued training at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School and The Rock School. Susy danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera, Chicago Festival Ballet, Napoles Ballet Theater, California Contemporary Ballet, City of Angels Ballet, California Riverside Ballet, Key West Ballet, Coast City Ballet and San Gorgonio Ballet. Susan had the privilege of working with some of today's most esteemed choreographers including Kenneth von Heidecke, Nicola Bowie, Jodi Melnick and Kitty McNamee in Samson & Delilah, Aida, A Masked Ball, Romeo & Juliette, Capriccio and La Traviata respectively.
Susan is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor and started Freaks In Training (F.I.T.), integrating her vast movement background into a successful and unique adult ballet program. Susan is a USC alumna (cum laude) with a BA in Communication and Philosophy.