Lisa Borres Casey, a native of Staten Island, New York, is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. At The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, from which she graduated in 2011, she studied with Stephen Pier and Katie Stevenson-Nollet, and danced in works by Martha Graham and Pascal Rioult. She participated in summer intensives at the Joffrey Ballet School, Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Parsons Dance, and has taught dance at The Hartt School. Since 2012 Lisa has been part of the selection process for Ballet Tech, Eliot Feld’s tuition-free school that draws its students from the New York City public school system and whose diversity reflects the full American spectrum. She has performed with Amy Marshall Dance Company, Elisa Monte Dance, DAMAGEDANCE, and Lydia Johnson Dance. She joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company in spring 2019.

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