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Performing Arts Life

Before the websites, paintings, and healing arts, there was dance. From early ballet training and summer stock to national tours, musical theatre, and performing at sea, movement was my first creative language.

A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line — Janet, Angie, and Shannon

At the Ballet from A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line in Michigan

Backstage during A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line finale

The A Chorus Line company backstage

The full company in the A Chorus Line finale

A life onstage

New York performer headshot

Fiorello! at Equity Library Theatre

Rasputin on Theatre Row in New York — Lori, Randy, and Shannon

Performing in West Side Story at a dinner theatre

West Side Story in performance

West Side Story national tour at Detroit’s Fox Theatre

Backstage as a Jet Girl on the West Side Story national tour

Backstage during The Robber Bridegroom

Amos and Olga — the summer stock production where Shannon met Alki

Backstage during Amos and Olga

Shannon and Randy at Forestburgh Playhouse

Playing a male character in summer stock

Dance lift during a cruise-ship production

Shannon and Steven performing aboard ship

A cruise-ship dance duet

Performing in a cruise-ship revue

Shannon as a cruise-ship showgirl

Showgirl costume backstage

The Bernstein Gala company in Europe

Touring in Europe

Performing in the Bernstein Gala on the European tour

Early dance life

Dancers at work in Vermont with Andrea

Young dancer Shannon in the studio

A life in motion

The stage taught me how to tell a story.

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