ABOUT Lauren
Having received my MFA in Dance from CU-Boulder with an emphasis in collaborative, interdisciplinary performance, I herald from the experimental and experiential art lineage of Michelle Ellsworth Artland and Gesel Mason Performance projects, and have performed nationally and internationally with 3rd Law Dance Theater, David Capps Dances, Interweave Dance Theater, Kim Olson/Sweet Edge, Onye Ozuzu, Curt Haworth and Dancers and Ellis Wood Dance.
I have had the fortune of collaborating with Brooke McNamara, XX, Mark McCoin, Jessica Hendricks, Wade Madsen, Amanda Leise, and many others.
I have served as faculty at the University of Colorado’s Theatre and Dance Department, offer movement training at Mi Chantli, Dance Dimensions, and Grace Studios, master classes and workshops throughout Colorado, and have been a faculty member for the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop for over fifteen years.
My embodiment one-on-one sessions and ongoing FLUX contemporary movement practice merge the explorations of modern dance, somatic/embodied lineage of Yoga, improvisational experimentation, the contemplative practice lineage of Zen Buddhism, and creative process.
I live in Longmont, Colorado with my partner Amanda, our three children, Lila, Finlay, and Remi, and our cat Samoa.
ARTIST statement
As an artist, I am currently researching and creating within the land of solo and duet-based interdisciplinary and multi-media performance. I am propelled by how the rigorous investigation of the body and via the body can be a vehicle to question, investigate, reveal, and traverse the nature of our human condition. In my artistic process, art-making, and art itself I thrive on exploring the transformative power of collaboration between my self, my body, other artists, and my environment. I love to engage, converse and collide structured and spontaneous improvisation along with vigorous choreographed movement, subtle gesture and text, chance operations, installation, and the use of multi-media elements such as film and soundscores/soundscapes.
I am also fascinated with the exploration of the 4th wall and the ways in which performance can transform the traditional separate and consumptive role of the audience into one of active participation, inclusion, and shared collaborative experience.
My intention is to make art that integrates physical practice, creative process, and theoretical inquiry, bringing people together to propel self-reflection, deep thinking, and transformation.
It is my hope that these ideas, states, and practices encourage a fierce presence, refined focus, and shape-shifting artistic vision that honors the immediacy of live performance and collaboration as powerful tools to create and deconstruct all notions of honesty, authenticity, and reality in relationship to the human experience.
Eunice Embodiment
In 2010, I co-founded Eunice Embodiment with Brooke McNamara, the collaborative identity and organization which intends to catalyze potent creativity, dynamic aliveness, and personal evolution for kids and adults through two tracks of engagement;
1. cutting-edge, interdisciplinary performances, and
2. radical inquiry-based movement education, CULTIVATE: Creative Practice Workshops (global online and local in person), and Earth & Sky Nature and Creativity Camps for kids.
