Deborah Lohse, Artistic Director of ad hoc Ballet, is a classically trained choreographer and dancer from Sacramento, California. Lohse's ballet foundation was provided by Dame Sonia Arova and Thor Sutowski and continued with modern under Jean Isaacs, Kevin Wynn and Joe Goode. Her eclectic training also includes theatre, comedy improvisation and ballroom. As a dancer, she has performed with a variety of companies, including the Sacramento Ballet, Jean Isaacs' San Diego Dance Theatre and Monica Bill Barnes & Company. In California, her ballets were presented at Sushi Visual and Performance Art, Celebrate Dance Festival and Entré Lineas Festival. Since relocating to New York City four years ago, her ballets have been called “emotionally driven” (Backstage) "searing and articulate" (Village Voice),  and “elastic and fascinating” (Village Voice). With a desire to seek out new music and support living composers, her repertory includes works from Michael Gordon and Radiohead. In New York, her work has appeared in numerous performances 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. She has received support from the Puffin Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Foundation, the Dancenow/NYC Silo Residency and Dance New Amsterdam. For New Chamber Ballet, she has created Just Holding On and Night Is Falling.