JENNIFER LACEY / 2001-2002

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
Meir 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 as well as at many European venues and
Festivals notably the Kaai theatre, Menagerie de Verre and the Szene
festival. In 2000 Lacey moved to Paris, founded Megagloss
with Carole Bodin and began what has become a longstanding
collaboration with Artist Nadia Lauro. 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 rehabiltate Italianate theatres, Prodwhee a disposible 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 and most
recently 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, Tall, Ouch ( a tap version of Carolee Scheeman’s Internal Scroll) and Gattica. Most recently she has collaborated with artist Tonija Livingstone on the performance « Culture and Administration ».

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