CHRISTIE MANNING
Guest Jazz, Lyrical and Hip Hop Instructor

Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Christie has become a very well known dancer, instructor, and choreographer. With her strong technical ability, enticing performance, and sassy style, Christie's extensive dance background has led her all over the world.

Christie is trained in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Tap, Musical Theatre, and Ballroom, graduating from the Langley Fine Arts School as a Dance Major and performing with the school's modern based dance company, Esprit De Corps.

Christie then moved on to work extensively with Vancouver’s professional dance company, The Source, and traveled to LA and New York, training at Millennium Dance Complex, Edge, and Broadway Dance Center. Christie began her career dancing for Calgary’s Football and Lacrosse dance teams, and continued on to appear in many live shows and television appearances. Christie has appeared in PNE Playland’s 'Bring On The Night' and 'Kaboom!', Silver Seas Cruise Lines with Jean Ann Ryan Productions, MTV’s boy band movie '2gether', and Columbia Pictures’ 'White Chicks'. She has performed in such stage shows as 'Spurlesque' and 'Takin' Over', and has appeared in commercials for Mountain Crest Beer, MangoXan, and La-Z-Boy. Christie has worked with such music artists as New Pornographers, Michael Buble, Lenny Kravitz, and Nelly Furtado, and is currently training with Lamondance Company directed by Lara Barclay and Monica Proenca.