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Annalisa cannot remember a time when she was not singing and dancing. As a small child, she glued a transistor radio to her ear while dancing all over her house. Without any fear she would put on performances for her family and turn off the television to show them her moves. She even appeared on television before she knew what it meant. Consequently she became comfortable with being in front of an audience. Although Annalisa began taking dance classes in her teenage years, she decided to embark on a dance career at the age of twenty-one. She studied jazz, ballet, character dance, funk and modern dance in various places on the West Coast while pursuing English literature at a college in her home state. Simultaneously she made contact with bands like WAR, BB King, and Bo Diddley. In her young twenties she was collaborating with bands such as the above, and opening their shows with her dance performances. She began her first company at a young age of 23. She did weekly shows that were Dance Theater, using fashion and dance, changing choreography weekly at a multi-million dollar nightclub. Annalisa worked with companies as varied as GQ Magazine, showing men's clothing on female models that were dancers, to producing large shows such as those with BB. King and others to benefit The American Cancer Society and many other charities. She danced videos and became known for her original and unique choreography. Soon she was known as a versatile and imaginative performer, and she was asked to choreograph everything from theater to the award winning body builders in Minnesota and Arizona who won the championship. She has worked in Community Theater, choreographed couture fashion shows, and performed them as well. She has taught professional level dancers, ice skaters, models and football teams for grace. She enjoys applying her craft in many different areas. Creating movement for nightclubs, videos, television, competitions, theater and over one hundred fashion shows, she became well known with diverse groups of people.

Annalisa has done print work modeling as well as walked many a runway. She has opened many events and danced herself or used groups of dancers to do so. She is comfortable in any dance arena and always reviewed as original, brave, world class, and unique. She enjoys a good working relationship with all her collegues.

She was also a hair and clothing model (runway) for almost ten years.

There is no way to list all of her accomplishments in the area of entertainment but one thing remains constant: Annalisa is an artist throughout and creating is her passion and natural for her. She has been called a natural all her life. Musicians such as Eric Gale regarded her before he died as a "needed spark," to production. She loves her work.

But just as she was at a peak in the dance world, her career turned onto a new path. One talent she had not been using was her voice, which had been trained as an adolescent. In her late twenties, however, she made connections with musicians, and easily enough she started to sing back-up, which she preferred, and tour around the country. She sang many different types of music, including rock and roll, blues, jazz and funk, in venues as varied as Prince's Glam Slam, Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and the famous Tippitine's in New Orleans. Some of her best experiences were playing with Grammy-winning artists like Eric Gale and members of the Meters. Throughout her dance and vocal career she had been all over the country in cities like New Orleans, Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tucson, San Francisco, Prescott, Malibu, and Santa Barbara Her childhood dreams had been realized. In her career, she has owned her own health club, dance studio, and dance company, the "In Your Face" dancers, who quickly became noticed as an energized and talented group. Some of her dancer's went on to participate in television, film, and Broadway shows. She is excited to encounter the future whether it holds dancing, singing, or any other interesting pursuit. The journey continues...

Oct. 15, 2007: Annalisa has become involved with the American Pain Foundation as a presenter and in other ways. She is working to help the sufferers of Chronic Pain to understand how to get help, and hopefully show health care providers how best to help those who suffer.