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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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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
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