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Time, space, and energy. Balance, rhythm, flow.
My work reaches across discipline in order to make meaning from these elemental forces. You will find here some documentation of my research and its various manifestations. This digital documentation, however, is partial at best in terms of capturing the holistic essence of my praxis. What I have built is rather a virtual representation of my practices of mending, repair and integration. Built of correspondent, interconnected and overlapping elements, of: making/bulding, teaching/observing, dancing/praying, and repairing/integrating, my inquiry has led to a wide range of creative and scholarly outputs, ranging from academic book publications to installation art. The diverse components of my work constitute a methodology for meaning making which I have developed over the past twenty years with which to engage the world around me. Please explore this site and feel free to offer me feedback (by email) on its content and organization, or if you are interested in communicating about potential collaboration or commission.
My Bio:
Laura Katz Rizzo holds a PhD in Dance and Gender Studies from Temple University and a BA in History and English from the University of New Mexico. She has performed with several ballet and contemporary dance companies and performed her own work (for live theater and the screen) at independent venues across the United States. She has published her writing in the academic and popular press and taught and presented her research at institutions worldwide. She works with dance as a mode of inquiry and research praxis which manifests as written publication, performance and installation art, and emerges from the intersections between dance, feminist theory any performance studies. Rizzo’s work incorporates ritual structuring and the creation of liminal sacred spaces that combine theoretical and practical modalities of dance composition, dance performance, ethnographic field work, and oral history with a feminist ideological commitment to making the personal both political and transparent, problematizing the binaries that Western epistemology has created between body and mind, human and non-human, truth, and fiction.
