Lindsay Viatori spent the bulk of her performing career in New York City dancing with Helen Simoneau Danse (rehearsal director and founding company member), Nathan Trice/RITUALS, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Collective Body/Dance Lab, Ellen Cornfield, Camille A. Brown, Sidra Bell, and VIA Dance Collaborative (founding member). She also enjoyed performing works by Twyla Tharp, Jiri Kylian, Ton Simons, Tatiana Baganova, and Miguel Gutierrez. She has performed in Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s West Side Story and North Shore Music Theatre’s Victor/Victoria. Her film credits include lead Arabian in Robert Lindgren’s The Nutcracker (PBS/UNC-TV), the feature film Across the Universe, and the dance film Color Theory directed by Cara Hagan. She also performed for three seasons with The Blanket, where she performed works by Lucinda Childs, Christopher Williams, and Beth Gill. She excitedly joined Ballet Ashani in 2023 for the world premiere of the contemporary ballet adaptation of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. She holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she received the prestigious Sarah Graham Kenan Endowed Fellowship of Excellence. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa and was the first recipient of the Strategic Initiative Fellowship, recognizing excellence in her field. She is the co-founder and director of the FORGE Summer Dance Intensive, hosted at Slippery Rock University, where she is an associate professor of dance.