Sisties’ early training was at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.  She  attended the Connecticut College School of Dance/American Dance Festival where she was introduced to the Graham Technique.  Sistie went on to complete the School of Dance at the London School of Contemporary Dance in England and then completed the curriculum at the Graham School in New York.   

While In Belize, her native country, she directed her own company for many years, among other items, choreographing and staging a performance for the Duke of Edinburgh.  She has also toured internationally with her own company, playing before the United Nations in N.Y. as well as Mexico, Jamaica and at St. Martin’s in the Field and the Commonwealth Institute in London. 

She has spent many years in the U.S.A.   She taught dance and acted at the Pioneer Playhouse in Lexington, Kentucky and with the Boars Head Players in Michigan.  In Florida Sistie worked with the Lee County Dance Council, performing with the Ft. Myers Symphony Orchestra.   In Tampa she worked with ‘Firethorn Modern Dance’.  Also in Sarasota County with Booker Visual and Performing Arts school,  ‘The Dance Studio’,  and ‘Florida Ballet Arts’.

After many years away from Belize Sistie returned to Belize in 1996 to give back to her native country some of what she has experienced.  She opened Vista Dance studio in Ladyville in January 1997. The highlight for vista dance is its annual dance concert presented at the bliss centre for the performing arts. Besides teaching and choreographing dance, Sistie designs and constructs costumes for herself and other companies.

Vista dance co. Performs for community fund raising events and in churches as a form of worship.  The studio has been associated with the dance department of Santa Clara University for eight years.

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