Dr. Rebecca Lazier

Biography

Rebecca Lazier is a choreographer and educator based in New York City and Nova Scotia. She has choreographed over eighty works that have been presented in six countries. Recognized as an audacious experimenter, Rebecca creates dances that showcase explosive physical vitality, inspired thinking, and problem-solving possibilities through collaboration. Her artistic practice continually reaches across disciplines—towards experimental music, engineering, architecture, visual art, and anatomy—to ask questions and drive invention in the choreography field. Rebecca's work increasingly emphasizes the coming together of disciplinary forms, continuously adapting to emergent systems in both stage and studio settings. She began her choreographic career collaborating with the popular avant-garde composer/activist Fred Ho and the two-time Tony-award winning theater director Bartlett Sher. Notable collaborators include MacArthur fellow Naomi Leonard, composers Daniel Trueman and Paul Lansky, and visual artist Janet Echelman. Rebecca has received significant honors, including a Bessie Award for her performance project in 2016, and she has been awarded prestigious grants for her innovative projects that bridge art and science. Her work has been performed extensively in reputable spaces across New York, Canada, Greece, Russia, Turkey, and Poland. Rebecca teaches as a Professor of Practice and serves as the Associate Director of the Program in Dance at Princeton University, where she also secured the Innovation Fund grant for research collaborations with artists, scientists, and engineers.

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