Lisa Gonzales

Lisa Gonzales is a dance-maker, performer, teacher and puppeteer. She received a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA from Ohio State University before moving to New York City where she has been based for the majority of the last six years. Her work has been shown at numerous venues in NYC and across the United States, including her most recent evening-length piece, A Hope Absurd, and her two newest solos entitled, The Weight of a Body and The Things Themselves. She has enjoyed traveling frequently over the last two years for guest artist residencies and commissions and has been invited to perform and teach next summer in Yaroslavo, Russia as part of The Architects, an improvisational dance company of which she is a founding member. She is extremely fortunate to be currently rehearsing a new work for choreographer Peter Schmitz and touring with choreographer/puppeteer Dan Hurlin in his acclaimed piece, Hiroshima Maiden. She has recently worked with such talented artists as puppeteer Chris Green, and dance artists KJ Holmes, Amy Chavasse, Angie Hauser, Deborah Hay, Paul Matteson, Susan Sgorbati, Andrea Olsen, Penny Campbell and others. She is very interested in the relationship of composition to both choreographed and improvised work and the role of composition in the transformational potential of performance. She is also currently writing a piece for Contact Quarterly, on faculty of the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation to take place at Franklin and Marshall College in June of 2006, and is very pleased to currently be teaching at Columbia College Chicago.