interdisciplinary performance art
About
As a vocal artist, physical poet, and experimental filmmaker, my work engages an interdisciplinary, multi-sensorial approach to performance, video installation, and poetry that reflects upon themes of identity informed by cultural and environmental influences. Drawing on notions of time, space, and the nature of change, my practice seeks to unravel the stories that we tell ourselves through a process of embodied inquiry, perceiving, unveiling, and reflecting through symbolic means
- Elise Tolan
Projects
Dancer in group piece created by Atsushi Takenouchi and Joana von Mayer at the exit festival 2019.
Dancer in piece by Deborah Colley, in association with the CoMotion Dance Company of Carbondale, CO USA
Improvised Performance with Christian Bernecker from the Arteria Butoh Dance Company, at the Ko-Labor community space opening in Bochum Germany 2019
Mourning the loss of a dear friend, this piece explores the grieving process in non-linear form: from recognition, denial, acceptance, and celebration
Improvised Performance Subbody Butoh Festival Calcutta 2017
A visual, sound art film explores themes of environmental influence, movement and stillness, dreams and reality. Work in progress
Duet evoking themes of memory, forgetting, remembering and letting go. Collaboration with Ma Dar
Researching the relationship between, breath, passing through the body as instrument; giving birth to voice and gesture, the audience is invited to participation in what is happening. Click link for performance video
Education
2020-2023 MA Arts Therapies; Dance/Movement Therapy, Codarts University of the Arts, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018-2022 Dance and Feldenkrais with Moeno Wakamatsu, La Maison du Bûto Blanc, Normandie, France
2018-2019 Voice and Movement Integration Somatic Practice with Patricia Bardi
2015-2017 Butoh Contemporary Dance Theater with Rhizome Lee at the Subbody Butoh School Dharamsala, India
2013-2015 National Institute of Art and Transformation (Interdisciplinary arts and artistic mediation) Paris, France
2009-2018 Dhrupad Vocal Training with Pt. Ritwik Sanyal, Varanasi, India
2002-2006 BFA Experimental Film Production and Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
Contact
Email: danselavoix@gmail.com
Tel Germany: +49 1786270557
Tel USA: +1 (970) 309-4373
Tel India: +91 9532102644