Directing & Educating
Directorship
Directed by Christina, Baldwin Wallace University produces two annual dance performances:
Testing Ground: which gives any student who wishes to have the opportunity to present their work the platform to receive artistic feedback from both the audience and invited dance professionals from the Greater Cleveland area.
Dance Concert: an evening-length performance with choreography by Christina Lindhout and other BW faculty members, as well as select student choreographers who are selected by Christina during the school year based on choreographic and artistic merit.
Dance Concert 2026: We’re All Mad Here
What makes YOU mad?
Is it when you’re running late? Perhaps for a very important date? Is it when you’re feeling unheard or misunderstood? When the scales of injustice are improperly balanced? When the events of the world are unfolding faster than you can process them?
Have you ever thought that maybe it’s the world that’s gone mad? If that’s true, then perhaps the only way to exist in a mad world is to become mad yourself…
Directed by Christina Lindhout, featuring Choreography by Christina Lindhout, Sabrina Lindhout, Nyah Abshire, Nasir Banks, Bradley Hughes, Kenna Kemppel, and Geneva Millikan.
Photos: Ursula Sadeh and Steve Wagner
Dance Concert 2025: Polyglots: using dance as language
/polyglot/ (noun; adj.) – speaking or writing several languages : multilingual (Merriam-Webster)
Through a unique fusion of multiple genres of dance, poetry, and original music, this concert showcased dance’s identity as a “universal language,” one that can express a broad spectrum of stories, ideas, emotions and identities. Inspired by a presentation given by Christina at Cleveland’s PechaKucha Night 2024 at Ingenuity Fest.
Directed by Christina Lindhout, with choreography by Nasir Banks, Greg Daniels, Elise Dobbins, Delilah Hartlage, Brad Hughes, Christina Lindhout and Sabrina Lindhout, with assistance by Hallie Harder.
Photos: Ursula Sadeh and Steve Wagner
Educating
Since 2024, Christina Lindhout has been an Assistant Professor of Dance at Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts. As an Assistant Professor, she directs all of the University’s annual dance productions, as well as mentor the dance majors/minors at BW, speaking at events and conferences at the University and beyond to guide and inspire the artists of tomorrow.
Through her role at BW, Christina has also been selected as an annual guest professor at Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina during their summer intensive programming, as well as guest teaching at Baldwin Wallace University’s Community Arts School, Ashland Regional Ballet in Ashland Ohio, and through DanceCleveland located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaking Engagements
BW Shares 2026 – “Untranslatable: Using Dance as Language” (restaged from PechaKucha 2024) – March 21, 2026
Baldwin Wallace Urban Dance Association & Dance Team Futures in Dance Q & A: featuring Christina Lindhout (Assistant Professor) and Sabrina Lindhout (Lecturer of Dance) – April 17, 2026
Past–Present–Future: Dance Legacy Conversations – FOUNDERS & NEXT GENERATION – July 28, 2024
Hosted at the University of Akron courtesy of GroundWorks Dance Theater, this panel featured a two-part presentation consisting of a Founders Panel and a Next Generation Panel. The Founders Panel opened discussions about some of the regions most established dance organizations and their beginnings and evolution. Christina was invited to speak as part of the Next Generation Panel, featuring herself and other individual artists and leaders from some of the region’s dynamic new startups, companies, and platforms in dance. Topics included current challenges and opportunities in dance, visions for the future of dance, successful strategies to advance dance, and dance as a career choice and life-long practice.
Cleveland PechaKucha Night 2024 – “Untranslatable: Using Dance as Language” (premiere) – September 27, 2024
PechaKucha was created in Japan in 2003 by renowned architects, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham. “PechaKucha”, Japanese for “chit chat”, features a 20×20 presentation slide show format of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. With only 400 seconds to tell their story with visuals guiding the way, industry leaders and innovators are selected by a panel to speak about their chosen field of passion. This talk is the original inspiration for Baldwin Wallace’s Dance Concert 2025: Polyglots.
Christina Lindhout 