Jennifer Lacey (FR/US)

BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer Lacey is an American choreographer now based in Paris. During the 90’s in New York City Lacey was a member of the Randy Warshaw Dance Company as well as a dancer with Jennifer Monson, DD Dorvillier, John Jasperse, Yvonne Meier and Ellen Fisher among others. At the same time she began developing her own work, which was presented at PS 122, Movement Research Danspace St Marks, the Kitchen as well as at many European venues and Festivals notably the Kaaitheater, Beaubourg/Centre Georges Pompidou, Festival d'Autumn, Wiener Festwochen, the Tate Modern and Montpellier Danse.

In 2000 Lacey moved to Paris, founded Megagloss with Carole Bodin and began what became a longstanding collaboration with artist Nadia Lauro. Their collaboration has produced many works including $Shot, Chateaux of France, Mhmmmmm and Les Assistantes. A monograph of their work was published in 2007. In addition to her work with Lauro, Lacey has founded a number of projects with ambiguous borders: Projet Bonbonnière – a research and living project designed to rehabilitate Italianate theatres; Prodwhee – a disposable series of performances using the dance residency as currency; Robinhood – a mythic and invisible performance with artist Cerith Wyn Evans; Robinhood – The Tour – an act of theft perpetuated with composer/musician Hecker, presented recently at the Tate Modern; and Transmaniastan – a work commissioned for a choreographed exhibition at the Kunsthalle, St. Gallen. She has also produced several solos: Two Discussions of an Anterior Event (2004), Tall (2007) and Ouch (2007) (a tap version of Carolee Scheeman’s Internal Scroll). In 2009 she presented Culture & Administration, a duet in collaboration with Antonija Livingstone. For the past two years she has been in residence at the Laboratoires d‘Aubervilliers in Paris. During this time she has produced two projects, Ma premiere fois avec un dramaturge, and I heart Lygia Clark. These projects are performative but fall outside the standard modes of dance production and spectacle. In 2011 Lacey premiered a collaboration with American choreographer Wally Cardona and Jonathan Bepler, Tool Is Loot. This group is currently engaged in a 4 year 8 part project, The Set-Up, based in meetings with international dance "masters". She is also currently presenting Culture Administration and Trembling a work made with Antonija Livingstone, Steven Thompson and Dominique Petrin.

As far afield from traditional dance performance as the work often goes, Lacey is committed to her essential point of view as a dancer and strives to produce a thinking body of work in which poetics transcend a conceptual basis.
She has taught technique, improvisation, composition etc. all over the globe for the last 15 years in institutions, studios and festivals. As a teacher Lacey has been influenced by her continuing studies with Release Technique pioneer, Joan Skinner. Over the past 10 years her teaching has expanded into her artistic practice. The form of the workshops is taken as performative and capable of producing content rather than just transmitting it. Consequently, she has been developmental in designing and running a project at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna for artists who also teach. This program is in its 6th year and will function as danceWEB scholarship coach this year.

Jennifer received a Doris Duke Impact Award in 2014 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2015.

05.05.2015

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        Karolina Miernik
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Performances
2021
PLASTIC PARTY VIENNA
Happy Birthday Mr. Beuys! (Performer)
2015
Jennifer Lacey
What's your problem and what action to take or: Your body is the event in a long long string of event that is difficult to grasp and what to do about it. (Choreographer, Performer)
2012
Jennifer Lacey
Gattica (Choreographer, Dancer)
2012
Various Artists
A Tribute to Franz West
in memoriam (Presenter)
2009
Jennifer Lacey & Antonija Livingstone
Culture & Administration
2008
Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro in cooperation with J. Bepler
Les Assistantes (Choreographer, Dancer)
2006
Jennifer Lacey
"Two Discussions of an Anterior Event"
2000
Le Quatuor Albrecht Knust
...d´un Faune (éclats)
Research
2016
2001
Coaching Project Coaching Project: Improvisation as a Compositional Performance Form
2000
Coaching Project Coaching Project: Improvisation as a Compositional Performance Form
Workshops
2001
Release Training
2000
Improvisation, Release Technique
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