land-dance: land-based dance class for movers and makers is an outdoor dance experience that expands our ideas of where and when dance takes place. Together we will open our senses to the terrain that surrounds us and explore how the natural world influences our breath, our movement, and our impulses. We will play with taking class on uneven surfaces while expanding our focus to the layers of trees, sky, and our urban landscape. All levels and abilities are welcome.
All are welcome. No advance sign-up required, just show up and check-in on-site.
About the instructor:
lisa’s choreographies and teaching are an homage to the generosity & wisdom of our earth mother. Dedicating her life to dance, lisa has created Land-based choreographies and teaching methodologies on the Mesas, in the Bosque, within the Mountains, and amidst the Volcanoes in her homelands of New México where she spent most of her life. Now based in New York City since 2019, lisa thrives as a dance and teaching artist, sharing her proficiency with a range of ages and audiences. In Lenapehoking (NYC) and beyond, she facilitates movement experiences and performs dances that engage people in the observation of ecosystems and our human interactions to ignite kinship with mama earth, centered on gratitude.
lisa teaches for The Paul Taylor Dance Foundation at the Taylor Center for Dance Education (NYC), is an ensemble member and the Projects and Partnerships Coordinator for Dancing Legacy (PVD), and a member of Radical Evolution’s Street Theatre Crew (NYC). She received her MFA in Dance from the University of New Mexico in 2015 with concentrations in Land-based choreography and performance, embodied dance history, and teaching.
Thanks to these generous sponsors for their support