Eastern European and my skin is medium-olive. My US shoe size is usually 6.5 or 7, though it sometimes goes to 7.5.
As a model, I have varying degrees of but some experience in the Art, Bodypaint, Dance, Editorial, Fashion, Glamour, Lifestyle, Lingerie, Pinup, and Swimwear genres. Overall, amongst these genres I am very experienced, having worked with over 35 photographers at least once (and many of these multiple times), as well as the numerous other artists with whom I've been privileged to collaborate as a model.
I have sixteen years of dance experience in a wide range of genres, including Creative Movement (character dance), ballet, tap, jazz, musical theatre, salsa, cancan, square dance, contemporary, modern, slovak folk dance, liturgical, bhangra, bollywood, several styles of bellydance including veilwork, traditional argentine tango (though not the ballroom adaptation), waltz, and swing.
I'm also a trained markswoman, decent with poi, and have an SAFD Certificate (as of August 2010) in Sword and Shield for stage. I can knit and cross-stitch. I speak English, Spanish, and ASL conversationally. I also speak some Mandarin and can read from a script in Interlingua, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, or Polish. Because of this array of language experience, I pick up accents very easily, and can speak text I've been given in other languages with relatively little preparation. I can use Brooklyn, Stage British, Australian, or Slavic accents.
In 2011 so far, I've worked with photographers including, but not limited to, Reality and Grace, Grunge Factory Fotos, Angie Candell, Cassie Kay Photography, Brian Herman, Jeffrey Souza, Riccardo Monaco, SilverHammerLightgraph, John Sekar, WhisperedThunder, Morgan Creative, Bob Persenaire, John E. Bodnar, Air Karma, Charles Gast, Holly Newlin, and Jason Girard. Makeup artists, hair stylists, and/or stylists for these shoots have included Janneth MUA, Alisha Nichole, Abby Gleason, Fab Faces By Brandy, Louisa of La Strega Bianca, Alyssa Ruggiero, and Jaclyn Doherty. I've also worked with non-photographic visual artists including GorillaPips, Ryan Ernst, Michael Thomas, J. Dax Parise, the West New York Figure Drawing Group, and Nora Weston. I've also acted in two short independent films, Causemic Creations's "Quiet Money" for Pittsburgh's 48 Hour Film Project and hinapa:studios's "Imogene," and performed onstage as two characters in a 24-Hour Theatre Project, Synesius in Still Breathing Productions's "Doing the Lord's Work," Loretta in Still Breathing Productions's "But Who Am I?", and Felicity in "The Real Inspector Hound."
