Fri 15.3.2024 // 19.30
Photo: Elizabeth Ward
Fri 15.3.2024 // 19.30
Work-in-progress showing // Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish/can // food & drinks
Thanks to: Claire Lefèvre and Özgür Sevinç
Funded by: Stadt Wien Kultur as part of an Arbeitsstipendium
First ideas articulated in a Raw Matters Tender Step residency.
Hello dear reader,
At this point what the presentation will be is speculative.
During the first half of my residency, I had three open gossiping dance sessions and made multiple individual invitations to other dancers to join me in the studio for moving and talking. Sometimes we had so much to say that the way forward was a gentle hands-on body work while staying in conversation, sometimes we had periods of moving in silence and periods of talking, sometimes we moved through a talking warm up. In each of these times there was a multitude of dances and stories.
For my presentation on the 15th of March, I imagine some storytelling, several dances, and perhaps a survey. Already the story of another dance I performed on the Ides of March, In like a Lion, out like a Lamb, which took place in a Brooklyn (or was it Queens?) warehouse sometime in the early 2000s, comes to mind.
Yours,
Elizabeth
Photos: Franzi Kreis
Elizabeth Ward (US/AT) is a dancer, choreographer and occasional Outside Eye. She is interested in how individual and collective dance histories are shaped by geography and the movements of people and ideas. Her earliest performing experiences were dancing children’s roles with the Atlanta Ballet. Later she studied Post-Modern Dance in Vermont which eventually led her to New York City where she danced for downtown choreographers such as Cathy Weis, Yvonne Meier, DD Dorvillier, Rebecca Brooks, Miguel Gutierrez, Biba Bell, and Heather Kravas. In NYC, her work was shown at Danspace, Movement Research at Judson Church, AUNTS, the Chocolate Factory, and the Kitchen. Since moving to Vienna she has danced for Anne Juren, Philipp Gehmacher, Veza Fernández, and Samuel Feldhandler. Her work has been shown in Austria through brut, WUK, TQW, Wiener Festwochen, ImPulsTanz, and steirischer herbst.