CALL FOR ARTISTS/APPEL AUX ARTISTS: Noli Timere à Montréal, Quebec
Nous recherchons des artistes expérimentés pour rejoindre un projet de création à Montréal, Quebec.
Seeking experienced performance artists to join a dance creation project.
NODES—Net tOpologies and Dance Explorations
A research intensive of dance and engineering experiments to generate new understandings of how different net topologies rigidify when loaded and soften when unloaded.
Composers & Computers: A Podcast from Princeton Engineering—Episode 06: “Dance Me to the End”
Sigrid Adrienssens and I discuss aspects of “Everywhere The Edges” and “NODES” alongside “There Might Be Others” collaborator Naomi Leonard discussing projects with choreographer Susan Marshall.
Lazier Named Professor of Practice
On June 2, 2022, I received the extraordinary news that I was promoted to Professor of Practice within the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.
Princeton University Premiere: “Caesura”
Created in collaboration with students and composer Ryan Wolfe, “Caesura” refers to a pause or break in a line of text or phrase of music and this dance engages with now: what is this moment of coming back to spaces with people? What is it to feel eye contact? What is it to see a whole body before you?
“Everywhere the Edges” Creation and Development
“Everywhere The Edges” is a performance installation of off-ground choreography performed within, on, under, around—and created simultaneously with—a voluminous Janet Echelman net sculpture.
Princeton Dance Festival Reimagined—Site, Off-Site, Site-Responsive
When the pandemic shifted courses online, I created a course in site-based choreography for students to create within their communities. Site, Off-Site, Site-Responsive Dance and Choreography asked where can dance happen? What can it do? And who can do it?
Mocean Dance’s Echo Dances
As part of being in Nova Scotia, I was honored to be included in Mocean Dance’s Dance Echoes film created with 40 dance artists across Mi'kma'ki for Nocturne Halifax.
A Modern Dance Coloring Book?
YES! Dance Photographer extraordinaire Julie Lemberger has compiled a coloring book, Modern Women: 21st Century Dance, of her images spanning styles and genres of Modern Dance. It is an honor to be included in this collection!
Big news: We’re staying in Nova Scotia for the year.
Many of you know I am from Nova Scotia. We came up in late June to retreat and recalibrate and now, after much consideration, have decided to stay the year.
Taking Space Making Place—International Documentation of Contemporary Dance Education
At the start of the pandemic I joined a remarkable working group of dance artists scattered around the globe. We met each Saturday to share perspectives and processes.
Collaborating within Princeton’s Atelier Program
The Princeton University Atelier program is a unique opportunity for collaborative, interdisciplinary teaching. In February 2020, I joined visual artist Janet Echelman, engineer Sigrid Adriaessens and sound artist Jess Rowland to co-teach and lead 30 students in creating textile sculpture installations that will activate, and be activated by, movement and sound.
Princeton Celebrates 50 Year of Dance on Campus
In 1969 Ze’eva Cohen began teaching dance on Princeton University’s campus. For 40 years she nurtured dance from an extracurricular program to full inclusion in the curriculum, and established a certificate program.
The Creative Process: Choreography, Choice-Making, and Communication
There Might Be Others is the title of a practice, a book, and a performance that began in 2013 and over a period of 3 years developed into a full evening work that premiered at New York Live Arts (NYLA) in 2016.
New Project Begins: University of Washington Architecture Department, Seattle
For the past year, I have had the pleasure and honor of collaborating with visual artist Janet Echelman and engineer Sigrid Adriaenssens. This semester we are in residence in the Architecture Department of the University of Washington hosted by Tyler Sprague, supporting a course in tensile structure, design, and performance.
“Faces of Downtown” at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
I am fortunate to be featured in the extraordinary photographer Maria Baranova’s exhibit, Faces of Downtown, at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY.
“Conditions” premieres at Soaking Wet Festival, commissioned by Women In Motion
When I was nineteen, I experienced my first disorienting injury while a student at Juilliard. I herniated two discs and fractured three vertebrae. The experience necessitated a restart of epic proportions.
“There Might Be Others” featured during “Living at the Intersection” Conference at Princeton University
The Council on Science and Technology (CST) held its inaugural Living at the Intersection Symposium on April 12-13, 2018 on the Princeton University campus.
Princeton University Premiere: “You Will”
You Will is a new dance I created in collaboration with the performers. Working with a sound score that includes Zoe Keating, Rachel’s, and Zhao Jiping, five women chart a course through time.
TRANSMISSIONS AND TRACES: RENDERING DANCE - “There Might Be Others” at the Dance Studies Association Conference
“With this conference, we seek to address where dance scholarship sits in the broader arena of dance transmission, with considerations of how dance might be tracked, or how it might be untraceable.” —DSA