Lindsay Clipner is the Executive Director & Producer of Boca Tuya. She believes in the pulse and artistic range of this company and is thrilled to help carry this vision.

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Her background as a cultural producer, filmmaker, documentarian, photographer, choreographer, and dance educator has allowed her to bring movement & dancers to cross-pollinate with other art forms.

 

Her dance photography has been featured in Fjord Review, Pointe Magazine, KCStudio, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has captured dancers from Ailey, Parsons, SFDW, Owen/Cox Dance Group, Boston Ballet School, Juilliard, TGDC, among others. Her dance film work has been shown internationally and was filmed with permission by renowned artist James Turrell in his Skyspace Three Gems in San Francisco, premiering at The National Gallery in D.C., the de Young Museum, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Pacific Northwest Ballet Film Festival, Dance Camera West, Bogotá Musica Video Festival, Dance Film Festival Prague, Corposensible, Cultur'Halle Film Festival, Thomas Edison Film Festival, Wild Dogs Film Festival, among others.

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Her upcoming documentary follows choreographer Christian Warner’s What Came with Spring, danced by Owen/Cox Dance Group.

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Lindsay choreographed a f t e r  h o u r s  featuring musical collaboration by Lune Ruse & Carlos Pesina Siller of Los Amparito. She partnered with the Merce Cunningham Trust to produce In Conversation with Merce in Kansas City, bringing his work to Kansas City after 20 years - staged by Patricia Lent and Dylan Crossman. She was honored to have been rehearsal director & assist Leo Holder in the staging of Geoffrey Holder's The Creation in 2023, danced originally by Carmen de Lavallade. This historic solo was set upon legendary ballerina, Karen Brown (DTH) - facilitated by Sean McLeod and Devon McLeod of The New York Dance Festival at SAB. She served as co-director for SFDW for its fifth season and welcomed works by Yin Yue, Dani Rowe, Laura O'Malley, Babatunji Johnson, Edward Clug & Martha Graham. She worked closely with regisseur Miki Orihara to bring the Graham repertoire to San Francisco and Kansas City.

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Lindsay is the founder and artistic director of RISE ARTS, curating multidisciplinary arts projects and providing community educational programs in visual, media & performing arts.

 

In the advertising & production world, she has traveled internationally with fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier for many brands & publications. She served as film production coordinator for director Stephane Sednaoui (videos : REM, Bjork, U2) in New York. Production highlights include : choreographing & dancing for Vogue Italia and appearing in the first SATC film for Miramax.

 

She has produced & worked for productions with Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Glamour, BCBG, ETRO, Target, Apple, GAP, Restoration Hardware, Sephora, The North Face, Google, Jansport, Banana Republic, Maybelline, among many others — as well as working with figures like Bono, Sara Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon & Steven Colbert. She has co-produced for Turner Broadcast with Reggie Watts. She produced for Sandbox Studio / Creative Drive in San Francisco and internationally for GYPSY Creative.

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Lindsay studied at GVSU and the Merce Cunningham Institute, ADF at Duke University, SEAD Experimental Dance in Salzburg, Austria, and all over New York with incredible icons such as Geri Houlihan, Lisa Catrett, Linda Graham, Milton Myers, Robert Swinston, Nicholas Leichter, Jimmy Orrante, Kraig Patterson, Patricia Lent, and Twyla Tharp. She has taught at Marin School of the Arts and Interlochen Center for the Arts.​

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Lindsay founded RISE ARTS Academy, offering podcasting, dance, theatre, comedy & cirque arts programming for kids with teaching artists from Cirque du Soleil, HBO, Ailey and other vibrant platforms.

 

She is passionate about the curation of dance with other art forms, industries and ideas. She wishes to promote and engage in conversation about equitable dance environments for artists across the industry.

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