Alisa Nipp

Originally from Southern California, Alisa Nipp began dancing at the age of 4. At age 8, Alisa began training at Pacific Ballet Conservatory for the next ten years under Maryann Bayless (PNB), Jane Matty (Dutch National Ballet), and Julie Binowitz (Pennsylvania Ballet).

Alisa then moved to Jackson, MS, where she was taught by Ravenna Tucker-Wagnon (The Royal Ballet) and Laura Morton (Milwaukee Ballet) at Belhaven University and has performed choreography by Vincent Hardy and Marlita Hill with the Belhaven University Dance Ministry Ensemble. In 2018, Alisa had the honor of performing in Imag[(i)n]e by Erin Schiewe Rockwell at The Kennedy Center through the American College Dance Association (ACDA).

While dancing with the Belhaven University Dance Ensemble, Alisa danced the role of a Little Swan in an excerpt from Swan Lake and Lucy Pevensie in Laura Morton’s ballet Into the Light based on C.S. Lewis’s book The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. In 2019, Alisa graduated from Belhaven University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and with honors from National Honor Society for Dance Arts.

For the next two years, she danced in Chicago, IL, with Ballet 5:8 as a Trainee 2019-2020, and as a Company Apprentice 2020-2021. During her time with Ballet 5:8, Alisa worked closely with Julianna Rubio Slager, Brette Benedict, and Kim Sagami (The Joffrey Ballet), performing in feature roles in Slager’s Brothers & Sisters and Beyond the Nutcracker, Benedict’s Into the Process, and Kevin Jenkins’s Still Waters. Other works include Slager’s premiere shows of Golden Sessions, Reckless, and Dry Bones. In 2021, Alisa joined Ballet Hartford as a Company Apprentice and was promoted to Corps Company Dancer for the 2022-2023 season. At Ballet Hartford, she has had the opportunity to perform as a soloist in Gilbert Bolden III’s Scherzo in D, work with Claire Kretzschmar (NYCB), and dance in multiple choreographic pieces by Caleb Mitchell (Houston Ballet). Alisa instructs our Dance Company Ballet Classes at all levels.