Callie Mae Nichole Lyons

Callie Mae Nichole Lyons is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California with upbringings in Augusta, Georgia. Trained extensively in modern, ballet, tap and jazz, she experiments with compositional dance tools as a means to heighten the kinesthetic experience in film praxis. She has worked both domestically and internationally with Brooklyn based choreographer, Jonah Bokaer, leading her to perform in venues in the states such as the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Meyerson Symphony Center with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Glass House and abroad in countries such as France, Serbia and Australia. She has performed Alvin Ailey's seminal work, Memoria, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with the repertory company of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In collaboration with NYU's Tisch Dance and New Media program, Callie directed and produced a dance-short film for Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign that was screened at the opening gala of the 43rd annual Dance on Camera Festival in NYC. In addition, her film grigri was screened at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles and her latest film, The Ville, was screened at the Films Reflecting Ourselves Fest and African American Cinema Society Short Film Showcase at the University of Southern California. She received her B.A. in Dance and Business Marketing from Loyola Marymount University, her M.F.A. in Dance and New Media from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, studied hyper-physical modern dance at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Salzburg, Austria and studied for 3 semesters towards her M.F.A. in Film Production from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts before departing to create on her own terms. Callie strives to tell deeply personal stories rooted in familial history, childhood, love, grief, spirituality and mysticism through visual fragmentation, non-linear storytelling and movement.