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Elizabeth Ward is a dancer, choreographer and occasional outside eye living in Vienna. Previously she has lived and worked in New York City, Athens, Brussels, and Portland, Oregon. Her work explores the collective histories of dance lineages accumulated in a dancer’s muscle memory as a living archaeology. Some of the performance festivals and venues she has been presented by include The Kitchen (New York), Danspace Projects (New York), Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York), Disjecta (Portland), Tanzquartier (Vienna), AUNTS (New York), Pieter PASD (Los Angeles), ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, steirischer herbst (Graz), Wiener Festwochen, ANA (Copenhagen), and Trinosophes (Detroit). As a performer, she has collaborated and participated in the works of Cathy Weis, DD Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Jennifer Lacey, Frédéric Gies, Michikazu Matsune, Manuel Pelmuș, Anne Juren, Philipp Gehmacher, Veza Fernández, Antonjia Livingstone, Samuel Feldhandler, Trajal Harrell, Rebecca Brooks, Biba Bell, and Heather Kravas, amongst others. Currently, she is engaged in an ongoing artistic research project, entitled Trillium and the Patient Labor of Dance, supported by a 2024 Arbeitsstipendium from Stadt Wien Kultur. Elizabeth studied Dance and Ecology at Bennington College in Vermont.
2021
