Andrea Mislan

COmpany rehearsal assistant

Andrea Mislan (she/her) has professional performing career that spans over 25 years. A graduate from Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet Professional Division, she has continued to evolve in contemporary and musical theater styles, in such productions as Celine Dion's "A New Day," Cirque du Soleil's "Viva Elvis," and "Chicago the Musical” International tour. A current resident of St Paul MN, she has most recently performed at the Guthrie Theater ("Cabaret,” “West Side Story," "Guys and Dolls," "Cyrano de Bergerac"), the Ordway (“Beauty and the Beast”), Chanhassen Dinner Theaters (“White Christmas,” “Jersey Boys,” “The Prom,” “Footloose,” “Holiday Inn," "Music Man"), and in several Collide Theatrical's original jazz dance musicals.

Andrea has choreographed for several regional theaters and studios across North America and has taught master classes internationally in ballet, contemporary, musical theatre, and Fosse technique (Broadway Across America). She most recently choreographed Les Miserables and Mean Girls for Eastview High School and Tuck Everlasting at Visitation High School. 

A movement educator, certified in Clinical Somatic Education, Franklin MethodⓇ, and AiM - Anatomy in Motion, her focus is to guide an embodied and efficient way of moving, facilitating a deeper understanding of functional movement and dance technique in every style, for every mover. She currently teaches private lessons and the company members of Ballet Co.Laboratory, infusing these movement modalities in her teaching with remarkable results in dancing with ease. Building awareness of how the body can best move through space with the least amount of effort and giving people agency over their movement is Andrea’s goal.