Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal, Senior Lecturer in the Performing Arts Department, performed for twenty years with such companies as American Ballet Theater, the National Ballet, Dancers, and the Cincinnati Ballet. Ms. O’Neal danced in the film Turning Point, performed as Kristine in A Chorus Line, toured with Dancers to Italy’s Spoleto Festival, danced in a live telecast of Live from Lincoln Center featuring ABT’s Swan Lake, and won a bronze medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. Ms. O’Neal has performed in the faculty concert, Dance Close-Up, and also choreographs for the Washington University Dance Theater. Ms. O’Neal’s choreography has also been seen in the department’s productions of Cabaret, A Little Night Music, The Beggar’s Opera, The Fantasticks, Company, Tartuffe, The Pirates of Penzance, and most recently in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Ms. O’Neal attended Smith College as an Ada Comstock Scholar graduating with a BA in theater. Her MA thesis from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, culminating with performances of "As Is", a classical ballet, structured improvisation with the Webster Dance Theater at Webster University, St. Louis, MO, was featured in the Summer/Fall 2001 edition of Contact Quarterly.

Ms. O'Neal is the President of the CORPS de Ballet International, an organization dedicated to the development, exploration, and advancement of ballet in higher education.

CORPS is a great group of artists who teach ballet in various universities and colleges throughout the US and Canada. This year the conference is in Toronto hosted by York university and Canada's National Ballet School.