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Updated 9/19/2023

Lailye Weidman

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Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

 

Lailye Weidman is a choreographer, educator, and a queer parent raising a feisty toddler in Western Massachusetts. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hampshire College, where she combines improvisation, somatics, and mindfulness with a focus on the politics of movement and embodied action. Through multiple projects over the past two decades, Lailye has been looking at the forces that move us and asking how bodies respond to those forces. Her work has been shown in venues on both coasts, the Midwest, and Europe. She has been an artist-in-residence at APE in Northampton, SPACE in Portland, Ponderosa in Stolzenhagen, Light Box in Detroit, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance (iLAND) in New York City, Pieter PASD and Hothouse/UCLA in Los Angeles, and the SEEDS Festival at Earthdance. She has also worked independently and collectively to produce dance and interdisciplinary events, residencies, and festivals in New England and beyond. She was Associate Editor for several issues of Contact Quarterly and remains invested in archiving and storytelling about and through dance practice..

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Lailye Weidman
Job Title: Dancer, Choreographer, Educator
Phone: 774-994-0253
Address:
Northampton, MA 01060

Additional Content:

  • Showman, FCD Faculty Concert, Feb 2019

    Showman (excerpt) Description: This solo emerged from found photographs of a hardcore punk band active in New England in the 90s. Attempting and failing to re-perform these still images opened the door to an investigation of the energies and textures of h

  • Social Animal Please Tame Me (2016)

    Choreography by Lailye Weidman Performers/collaborators: Jen Lu, Grant Hill, Catalina Hernandez, Charli Brissey, Raha Behnam, Diana Shepherd Sound design by Yu-yun Hsieh Lighting design Eric Van Tassel Social Animal Please Tame Me is a 30-minute dance w

  • TINY huge Worlds, Repertory Project for Marlboro College Dance Program

    Choreographed by Lailye Weidman with contributions from the students in the Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary Dance Technique and Repertory class Performed by Catherine Canann, Cara Downey, Phoebe Okoomian, Moon Livingston, Alta Millar, and Maggie Wicken

  • Showman at Judson Church (2017)

    Choreography and Performance by Lailye Weidman Sound by Drew O'Doherty and Bells≥ Movement Research at the Judson Church, Oct 16, 2017 Showman is a solo that emerged from found performance photographs from the ’90s of a hardcore punk band from my small h

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Writing Services
  • Curriculum Development
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Consulting - Curatorial Services
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 15

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public
  • LGBTQ Populations

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Dance Studies Association
  • National Womens and Gender Studies Association

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Dance Studies Association
  • National Womens and Gender Studies Association

Awards

Awards:

  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Choreography, 2018

Education

Education:

  • MFA in Dance, University of lllionois, Urbana Champaign
  • BA, Dance | World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Healthcare Facility
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • MFA in Dance University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2016)
  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, New Orleans (2015)
  • BA in Dance, UCLA (2010)
  • Ecole des Sables, A New Step: Contemporary African Dance Training, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal (2009)
  • Luna Dance Institute: K-12 dance education training (2007)

Fee range:

$150 - $1,000

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Healthcare Facility
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • MFA in Dance University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2016)
  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, New Orleans (2015)
  • BA in Dance, UCLA (2010)
  • Ecole des Sables, A New Step: Contemporary African Dance Training, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal (2009)
  • Luna Dance Institute: K-12 dance education training (2007)

Fee range:

$150 - $1,000

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Basic Lighting
  • Sound System
  • Technical Assistant/Director/Support

Fee Range:

$750 - $10,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

6