Sandra Chinn is an Isadora Duncan Award winner in Special Achievement "for the commitment to and excellence in the training, teaching, inspiring, and motivating dancers throughout the dance community”. She is a company ballet teacher for Alonzo King LINES Ballet and ODC/Dance Company, and faculty at The LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California, The LINES Ballet Training Program, and teacher and director of ballet pedagogy at Berkeley Ballet Theater. She has been guest adjunct faculty at New York University Tisch Summer Dance Residency, Visiting Guest Artist at Hollins University BFA and MFA Dance Program, and a guest teacher for Paul Taylor Dance Company, Abraham.In.Motion, Company Wayne McGregor, Jessica Lang Dance, Lucinda Childs Dance, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Aszure Barton and Artists, Amy Seiwart's Imagery, Post:Ballet, SF DanceWorks, Matthew Bourne's New Adventures, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and BODYTRAFFIC. 

During her performing career in New York City, she was a company member of Dennis Wayne’s Dancers, Finis Jhung’s Chamber Ballet USA and Bob Bowyer’s American Ballet Comedy. She was featured in the off-Broadway dance show “Funny Feet,” for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination as “Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.” She is a graduate of the National Academy of Arts (Champaign, Ill.), and she continued her studies at the Joffrey Ballet School (NY), and intensively with Maggie Black. She is grateful for a performing and teaching career in the concert dance field and she looks forward to continuing her work and studies for many years to come.

Photo by: Nick Korkos