Katrina Soricelli

Director of Community Engagement

Katrina graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in Performance and Choreography. Through this program, she was able to attend a study abroad in Paris, France and received the World Scholarship, Michelle Vargas Scholarship and multiple talent grants for her work in choreography. After graduation she moved to Orlando performing in over 60 works in the 5 years. Katrina has produced 20 professional pieces and 3 full length works including – TRASH: Our Waste Syndrome, is a dance theatre initiative that explores our relationship with everyday items of convenience and during the pandemic, she created and performed as Co-Artistic Director of Engram Dance Project her second full work, The Unraveling – a site-specific show that took the audience though the city of Orlando and thirdly Shifting Perspectives at site specific show commissioned by Creative City Project. In addition she has made work for Artists for a Cause: Dance for Food and showcased work in New York and Vietnam. Katrina began Tree CoLab, a dance artist series for performing professionals. As a performer, she attended Jacob’s Pillow Ann & Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellowship Program. She has continued her education getting teacher training with Disney Musicals in Schools, Limón teaching K-12 and a 230hr Yoga Certification, Countertechnique and NDI Level 1 Training.

Katrina is Lindy Hop trained and instructs improvisational classes to help blend concert and social dance communities together. She was a part of the Fringers of the Future Panel and Applause Awards Adjudicator for the Dr. Philips Center. She was a lead teaching artist for the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and performed for the grand opening of the Steinmetz Hall. At Orlando Ballet she was a lead outreach teaching artist and acted as the Community Enrichment Administrative Coordinator.

She moved to Texas to become the Director of Community Engagement at Ballet Lubbock. In her last four year she has tripled community engagement and outreach initatives. At Ballet Lubbock she cultivates over 40 residencies in six districts. She provides conting education and mentorship for teachers, develops curriculum and provides adminstrative polices, systems and support across programming. In Lubbock she has continued to create work and perform for Flatlands Dance Theatre, Inside Out Festival, Wallace Theatre, TDIF and served on the panel for Texas Commission of Arts and guested as the Rat Queen. In addition she adjucts at Texas Tech University teaching contemporary, partnering, pedagoy, bodywork, and sets new works during their faculy concerts. She believes in creating welcoming space so the arts can be accessible for everybody and at every age. Making work and teaching to service the whole human by bringing community together and giving them the confidence to show up as their best selves through the vehicle of dance.