Contact
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Bellydance
As a graduate of Alfred University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and minor in dance, Elizabeth is now pursuing a life as a dancer and yoga instructor. With nineteen years of dance experience, Elizabeth has explored many styles such as Modern, Ballet, Hip Hop, Butoh, and African. Middle Eastern Dance, her true passion, has been an area of focus in most recent years. Fusing traditional middle eastern dance movements with modern sensibilities, as well as drawing from her training in art, Elizabeth has a unique brand of Tribal Fusion Bellydance. She has been described as playful, elegant, graceful, powerful, and passionate, as she accesses this sensual art form with sophistication and class. She has taught at the Starwood Festival and performed at the New York Renaissance Faire, Wicked Faire, RenCon, and Alex Grey's CoSM to name a few! Hailing from the Hudson Valley NY, Elizabeth is looking forward to teaching and performing around the world as she travels to share this important art form! She likes to keep it classy and sassy and shake it ancient!!
"Elizabeth has a quality in her dance that is powerful and magnificent, while also being tender and fragile."
-Anonymous, Cincinnati performance 2009
"The towering Big Apple dancer showed a lot of seasoned poise and grace for a soloist, dressed in Indigo gothic white for her tribal fusion dance with an angel's touch. Slow, fluid and trance worthy, Elizabeth gave reason to believe that tribal fusion bellydance in the Big Apple is ready to turn the page past its initial exodus and approach a public next chapter of entertainers for the future."
- Brandon, Raqs America 2009
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Photography
"Aphrodite"
"I've Got You"
"Soft"
"Vessel"
"Holding"
"I See You, See me"
"A Cup to Hold You In"
"Chuck 1"
"Chuck 2"
"Flame"
"Smoke and Light"
Pastels
"Lemons & Cup"
"Tuscany"
"Violets"
"2 Pears"
"Anemonies"
"Daffodils"
"Lemons"
"Onions"
"Pansies"
"Petals"
"Pitchers & Oranges"
"Reclining Nude"
"Rose"
"Untitled"
"View from Leonella"
"View from Taverna"
About
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Artist's Statement: We are nature. Our bodies are earth, our souls like wind, and we feel the mysterious pull of our mortality and sensuality when engaged with the landscape. This reality is both internal and external. It includes ancient stories, past dreams, and the infinite space inside of us. A place where our minds escape and our bodies dwell-the human landscape. In the words of Marcel Duchamp,"Art must be part of life-not an interpretation of life, not a description of life, not an attempt to comment on or improve on life, but a piece of life itself." It is because of this, that the human form is the medium in which I work.
Utilizing multiple mediums including photography, video, sound, dance, and performance to convey experience, the body is always present, and is crucial to my process of relating ideas. Most essential is live performance, as the art is experienced as it is made. It is inside the performer. It is in their breath, their movements, and their stories, blurring the distinction between life and art.