Christina Gianelli Christina Gianelli is the resident lighting designer for the Houston Ballet and has designed numerous dance performances for the ballet in Houston, New York City, the United States and the touring productions of the Houston Ballet in Asia. She has also been a vital member of the Houston dance community for a number of years and established her reputation as the prodicing director of the much respected annual Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance at Miller Outdoor Theatre, which traditionally opens the dance season in Houston each October. As director of the Dance Initiative, she just created the fifth annual event at Miller outdoor Theatre in early October 1999, and during the past year she has acted as Executive Director of CODA, the new collective dance project which was created in Houston in1998 . Christina has served on the Artistic Advisory Board of Diverse Works and recently joined the creative team of AlienNation Co. as an artistic associate. She joined AlienNation Co. in the conceptual and scenographic development of the new "MIRAK" opera project that will be premiered in December 1999, and designed the lighting for the premiere at DiverseWorks. She also had a role as a vocalist in MIRAK.