Deborah Lohse, Artistic Director of ad hoc Ballet, is a classically trained choreographer and dancer from Sacramento, California. As a performer, she has worked with the Sacramento Ballet, Monica Bill Barnes & Company and Doug Elkins and Friends. Her work has been described as “emotionally driven” (Backstage) "searing and articulate" and “elastic and fascinating” (Village Voice). In New York, her ballets have appeared in venues ranging from the theater at Florence Gould Hall and the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center to the stage of Joe's Pub. With a desire to seek out new music and support living composers, her repertory includes works from David Lang, Michael Gordon and Stefan Weisman. She has received support from the Puffin Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Foundation, and artist residencies at Dancenow/NYC Silo, Dance New Amsterdam and Acadia Summer Arts Program. For New Chamber Ballet, she has created Just Holding On, Night Is Falling and Two.