Performances
Shakti Moves Dance Company presents:
Throwback in 3’s
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WHEN:
September 18, 19, 20, 2025 | 8:00pm
September 20, 2025 | 2:00pm
WHERE:
Ground Floor Theatre
979 Springdale Road • Austin TX 78702
FEATURING:
The Shakti Movers, Lisa Nick and her Band of Wild Ponies, and our Resident Artist Cassandra DeFrietas
Lighting Design by Stephen Pruitt
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Cassandra Defreitas is an actress and artist (& self- proclaimed yogi) working in Austin, TX. Since moving to the city in 2019, she has been navigating the creative and independent theater scenes. Working with companies like Bottle Alley Theater, SkyDome Stage Company, Cheerful Secrets and Different Stages. Last year, Cassandra co-founded a woman run record label where she organizes the events for her artist friends- It's this passion for art, the stage and community that has led Cassandra straight to Shakti moves.
Cassandra DeFreitas
Resident Artist
Ground Floor Theatre
979 Springdale Road • Austin TX 78702
SMDC extends a special thank you to our sponsors:
The Ground Floor Theatre
The Yoga Common
Vibe ATX
Cafe Dance
Liliana Zapatero (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer in Austin, Texas. She is the co-director and producer of ZATERO Dance, which she founded in 2017 with Natasha Small. She has worked and performed locally with Alyson Dolan, Annette Christopher, Articulate Austin, Circuitous Dance/Kate Warren, Dance Waterloo, Early Era Collective, Jahna Bobolia, Jessica Boone, Lisa Nicks and her Band of Wild Ponies, Morgan Teel, Shrewd Productions, and RAW PEAR. Zapatero has also worked as an Administrator for Early Era Collective, and a Senior Administrative Associate for the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Zapatero graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance and a minor in general business from Sam Houston State University.
Liliana Zapatero
Guest Performer
Lisa Nicks run run leaped with her degree from Sam Houston State University to Houston, and danced James Clouser’s Space/Dance/Theater, and Farrell Dyde Dance Theatre. She performed regularly in Houston Grand Opera, Theater Under the Stars, and Children’s Theater Festival productions. A crash in the economy sent her packing to NYC, where she met and married the Doug Elkins' Dance Company: dancing, rehearsal directing, teaching, and administrating. Since relocating to Austin in 2001, she’s danced and choreographed independently, spent six seasons with Kathy Dunn Hamrick, and three years with Kate Warren Circuitous Dance. Her troupe: Lisa Nicks and her Band of Wild Ponies, is a collective of free-lance and prance dancers who commit by project, making movement dreams come true. While her leotards are drying Lisa Nicks /Emerald City creates postage stamp collages with new and used stamps. Please visit: www.postagestampcollage.shop Ms. Nicks loves Crabtrees, is a caregiver to her parents, and is president of the Austin Texas Stamp Club.