Elizabeth Ward is a dancer/choreographer and occasional Outside Eye currently 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 (NYC), Danspace Projects (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Disjecta (Portland), Tanzquartier (Vienna), AUNTS (NYC), Pieter PASD (LA), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), steirischerherbst (Graz), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), 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, Rebecca Brooks, Biba Bell, and Heather Kravas, amongst others. Her earliest performing experiences were dancing children’s roles with the Atlanta Ballet. Elizabeth received her BA from Bennington College in Vermont where she studied Choreography and Improvisation as a Performance Practice. In 2012 she participated in the Brussels based a.pass artistic research program with a project entitled Ballet as an Emancipatory Practice. Elizabeth has lead workshops combining ballet, somatics and emergent choreographies at professional training centers, festivals and universities across Europe and North America. 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.
01.04.2021
