My lifelong fascination with science and engineering has been integral to my artistic process. Linking dance and engineering has led me to creative breakthroughs in movement vocabulary and choreographic design and informed my collaborators’ ongoing research and publications. Over three decades, my work has increasingly emphasized a coming together of disciplinary forms and the choreography of continuously adapting, dynamically responsive, emergent systems on stage and in the studio.
Rebecca Lazier is a choreographer recognized as an audacious experimenter. She has created more than 80 works, dances of explosive physical vitality inspired by the thinking and problem-solving made possible through collaboration. Rebecca continually reaches outside of dance—toward experimental music, engineering, architecture, visual art, and anatomy—to discover how the methodologies that drive invention in other fields can open up new frontiers of choreographic knowledge.
Her performance project “There Might Be Others,” commissioned by New York Live Arts, won a 2016 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award before touring internationally. Rebecca has also received a Bessie Schönberg Choreography Residency at The Yard, an honorary fellowship from Djerassi, artist residencies at The Joyce Theater Foundation and Movement Research, and funding from New Music USA, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance. A film adaptation of her work was presented at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.
A Professor of the Practice and Associate Director of the Program in Dance at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, Rebecca has performed extensively throughout New York, Canada, Greece, Russia, Turkey, and Poland, with recent performances at the La MaMa Moves! Festival, Invisible Dog Art Center, New York Live Arts, Scotia Festival of Music, Live Art Dance, and the prestigious Malta Festival. Her current project, “Everywhere the Edges,” is supported by the National Creation Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
