About
Hi, I’m Lindsey! One of my greatest sources of joy is helping people achieve their goals and dreams, especially when it comes to dance. Nothing lights me up more than watching someone’s endeavor go from idea to reality. I love celebrating accomplishments, challenges, milestones made and met, and all the nitty-gritty that goes into building your vision.
I also know how incredibly daunting it can be to try and do that all by yourself. It can easily get lonely (“no one else seems to understand!”), discouraging (“I’ve been told that my idea won’t work”), and stressful (“I’ll never be able to get this done with so much else going on”).
That’s where I come in. As your dedicated Dance Consultant, I’m here to journey with you as you level up, set goals, and make dreams come true. I’m here to be your cheerleader, your advocate, your kick-in-the-seat-of-your-pants, your accountability partner, and your mentor.
Why should you listen to me, you might ask? I’m so glad you did!
I know how to help you achieve dance goals and dreams because I’m grateful to have achieved a lot of my own. Here are just a few:
- Professional dancer & guest artist for over a decade with multiple companies (and still performing!)
- Founder and Artistic Director of an award-winning, nonprofit professional dance company for six years
- Dance studio founder and owner for five years
- Founder/producer of a major annual collaborative city-wide dance event that is still going strong
- Pitched the idea, wrote the curriculum, and developed the first-ever dance program for a community college’s Continuing Education program
- Dance instructor & master teacher for all ages and levels from recreational through professional organizations in ballet, pointe, modern, tap, jazz, pas de deux, and ballroom
- Online dance & fitness course creator with over 7,800 students on Udemy
- Professional choreographer who is regularly commissioned to set original works on professional and pre-professional dance companies
- Successful additional career as a marketing and business development leader across multiple industries
- Published author
- Public speaker
- Hold two master’s degrees
P.S. If you really are interested in my full bio, here you go:
Lindsey Dinneen is originally from Northern Virginia, where she began her formal training at the Ravel Dance Studio. At the age of 13, she was invited to join the studio’s pre-professional Company, and performed multiple featured roles in Cinderella, Swan Lake, Coppelia, Giselle, The Nutcracker, and as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. She then attended Mercyhurst College on scholarship, where she attended a summer intensive in New York City with American Ballet Theater before graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in Dance. During her time at college, Lindsey was presented with the National Dance Association 2010 Student Literary Award & its 2011 Plaudit Award for contribution to the dance field. Lindsey danced as a senior company member and soloist with Störling Dance Theater for four years and was a principal ballerina with Dramatic Truth Ballet Theatre for one season, starring in The Mystery of Christmas. She has been a guest artist with Not Your Average Dance Project, City Ballet Theater, Anazao Dance, Communitas, and for independent choreography projects, including for a video with Willow Tree artist Susan Lordi. She founded VidaDance Company in 2015, and was its Artistic Director for six years, growing the company from an original show cast of six dancers to becoming a non-profit organization that regularly produced award-winning collaborative shows with casts of over 30 people. VidaDance won “Best of Festival” twice and “Best of Venue” three times at the Kansas City Fringe Festival, has been featured on PBS in its KC Performs! series, and performed sold-out shows like RISE and Cracked! A Reimagined Kansas City Nutcracker.
Lindsey has over a decade of experience in many areas of marketing, encompassing a variety of industries including medtech, performing arts, fitness and wellness, start-ups, B2B services, hospitality, and event management. Lindsey founded a nonprofit professional dance company in 2015, and a dance studio in 2016—she quickly led them to success, utilizing digital and traditional marketing channels, employing powerful branding, and maximizing ROI by embracing organic and guerilla marketing strategies and networking. Her marketing expertise includes website design, social media strategy, branding, organic and paid SEO, multi-channel paid advertising, event marketing and promotion, marketing collateral design, copywriting, expert positioning strategy, and online course and webinar creation.
Lindsey has been featured for her expertise and experience more than 30 times in Authority Magazine, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Real Simple, Thrive Global, ASPIRE Magazine, Medium, and other respected media outlets. She has also published a poem in the poetry collection “Beyond the Sea: Escape”, been the editor/founder of a magazine for girls, wrote a regular column for another magazine for girls, and has self-published two guided journals available on Amazon.
She adores being a Consultant for dance organizations and professionals as well as being the Chief Executive Wiseguy at Marketing Wise, and she champions health and wellness through her online dance, stretching, and mindfulness courses at Elevate Art. She is grateful to be serving as a board member for Texas A&M University-Texarkana’s Women in Leadership certificate program, and last year, for its Digital Marketing Program. Lindsey holds an MS in Management & Leadership and an MBA. She and her husband embrace the digital nomad lifestyle, traveling full-time around the world while working remotely.