Aliyah Ballerina

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The Dance Con­ser­va­tory is cur­rently rehears­ing for our upcom­ing pro­duc­tion “Redemp­tion of the Dart Heart.”

The show is directed by Tracy Van Baalen and co-directed by me. This is our 2nd year and so far its off to a great start. I couldn’t be more prouder of all the students.

We are per­form­ing at The Joan Kroc The­ater June 12th and 13th, 2009 (Fri­day and Saturday)

6845 Uni­ver­sity Ave
San Diego, CA 92115

I am chore­o­graph­ing the Pirates, Sea Bat­tle and other parts here and there. This show is crazy, fun, a lit­tle dark but absolutely fas­ci­nat­ing. Stay tuned for more details. I’ll post more deets later. ♥

My dad is a retired pho­tog­ra­pher. I tend to fol­low in his foot­steps. So obvi­oulsy, I want to be good pho­tog­ra­pher. I have a Pana­sonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 dig­i­tal cam­era with a pow­er­ful 36 to 432 mm Leica lens. It also has 12x opti­cal zoom. You can shoot auto­matic or man­ual focus. Its a really great cam­era for some­one who wants to take beau­ti­ful shots. More info on the Lumix cam­eras at http://www.panasonic.com.

I’ll be post­ing pho­tos when I can at my Flickr page.

Enjoy!♥

Ms. Has­san was born and raised in San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia. She started danc­ing at age 6 with the Bal­let Con­ser­va­tory under the direc­tion of Ms. Paz Sori­ano (R.A.D. Syl­labus, French and Cuban tech­nique). Many years later she relo­cated to the Lemon Grove Arts Com­plex where she received much of her bal­let train­ing from under the direc­tion of Ms. Teresa Wells. She per­formed in many L.G. Arts pro­duc­tions and became a com­pany mem­ber of Mirabile Bal­let at the age of 14.

Ms. Has­san con­tin­ued to train, teach and chore­o­graph under the men­tor­ship of Teresa Wells for over 15 years and gives much credit to Ms. Teresa for her guid­ance and sup­port.
She was a staff teacher and fea­tured per­former with the San Diego Civic Youth Bal­let and has taught bal­let, pointe, jazz, and hip hop for many stu­dios and pro­grams, including:

• Acad­emy of Per­form­ing Arts, San Diego, CA

• San Diego Dance Cen­ter, San Diego, CA

• Chula Vista Recre­ational Dance Pro­gram, Chula Vista, CA

• Joan Kroc Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter, San Diego, CA

Ms. Has­san has also received recog­ni­tion for her tal­ents with offers from the Alvin Ailey sum­mer and year round pro­grams in New York and the Deeply Rooted Dance Co. in Chicago.

She has worked with C. Anthony Cole Reper­tory Dance Com­pany in 2000 and also with Xavier Hicks Artis­tic Direc­tor and Founder of Selah Dance Com­pany from 2001–2003.
Ms. Has­san has been fea­tured and starred in many pro­duc­tions such as the Snow Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nut­cracker Suite and many other notable roles through out her dance career.
She is cur­rently teach­ing and work­ing with Tracy Van Baalen, Artis­tic Direc­tor of The Dance Con­ser­va­tory (for­merly Dance Express Stu­dio) as the Asso­ciate Direc­tor. 2009 marks her direc­to­r­ial debut in “A Nut­cracker Revis­ited” a Dance Con­ser­va­tory production.

Recent The Dance Con­ser­va­tory Productions:

• Co-Directed A Nut­cracker Revis­ited 2007, Directed by Tracy Van Baalen
• Co-Directed Redemp­tion of the Dark Heart (an orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion) 2008, Directed by Tracy Van Baalen
• Co-Directed A Nut­cracker Revis­ited 2008, Directed by Tracy Van Baalen
• Co-Directed Redemp­tion of the Dark Heart 2009 (an orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion) , Directed by Tracy Van Baalen

Ms. Has­san is cur­rently the Prin­ci­pal Dancer and the Rehearsal Direc­tor of LaDiego Dance The­ater. She has worked very closely with Mr. Mar­shall for many years and when he moved back to San Diego after retir­ing she was one the 1st dancers to join the company.

Aliyah Has­san cur­rently works as a Project Man­ager at  an inter­net mark­ing firm located in San Diego, CA which devel­ops prod­ucts and inter­net strate­gies for the den­tal, med­ical and legal divi­sions all over the US and abroad. The prod­ucts include and are not lim­ited to cus­tom html web­sites, video web­sites, search engine opti­miza­tion (SEO), flash ani­ma­tion, pay per click (PPC), con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems (CMS), and many more.

As a project man­ager , she over­sees the full life cycle of new projects as well as man­ag­ing the inter­nal work flow, resources and dead­lines for her team. With over 15 years in cus­tomer ser­vice expe­ri­ence, she can han­dle speak­ing to clients, run­ning con­sults and tak­ing on exist­ing projects to get them back on track.

Aliyah has also trained the cus­tomer ser­vice spe­cial­ist depart­ment with a care­fully laid out 6–8 pro­gram. For 2–3 hours per day, all new CSS reps, meet with her to learn not only about the com­pany and its prod­ucts, but how to man­age client accounts and train­ing clients on how to use the prod­ucts and ser­vices. She also started the cor­po­rate train­ing pro­gram for new hires, sim­i­lar to an ori­en­ta­tion pro­gram. Many types of train­ing strate­gies were used in the CSS train­ing pro­gram, lec­tures, Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tions, hands on projects and quizzes to test their knowl­edge. After the 6–8 ses­sions, the CSS would take a 5 hour test on all that was learned. The impor­tance of this train­ing pro­gram is to pre­pare them to take on a client load and pick up where things were left off. Aliyah also served as a men­tor for all CSS’ who needed guid­ance as they were placed in a mar­ket which could be a big as a 100 clients to man­age and maintain.