Dance@UCI

Associate Professor of Dance

Choreography, Improvisation, Laban Movement Analysis, Modern Dance, Teaching of Dance

Loretta Livingston is a contemporary choreographer, artistic director, dance educator, and Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst. She creates performance projects that include evening length dance theater works for the concert stage, site-specific events in urban spaces and international collaborations, currently with dancers and choreographers in Korea, Singapore and Turkey. Her dances have been performed in the Singapore Dans Festival at the Esplanade Theaters on the Bay (2009, 08, 07) in the Seong Nam International Dance Festival at the Seong Nam Arts Center in Korea (2009) and at the Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Turkey (2004). She creates shorter dance works for dance programs in colleges and universities across the nation.

Since coming to UCI Loretta has been awarded the Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Teaching (2008-09), a Teaching Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award /Celebration of Teaching (2007) and the Outstanding Professor Award for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, selected by the graduating class of 2006. Other professional awards include the Artist Award for the California Dance Educators Association (2003), multiple Lester Horton Dance Awards from the Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles (1991- 2003), the Professional Artist Award from California Alliance for Arts Education (1995), the Distinguished Artist Award from the Music Center of Los Angeles County (1994) and the Dewar’s Young Artist Award (1990).

Prior to coming to UCI Loretta directed her performance ensemble, Loretta Livingston & Dancers, based in downtown Los Angeles. She earned her dance degree at California Institute of the Arts under the tutelage of Bella Lewitzky and Donald McKayle, and spent her first ten years as a professional modern dancer touring internationally and nationally with the Lewitzky Company. In addition to her dance practice, Loretta is avid student and practitioner of yoga and zazen, and studies Tai Chi, Kung Fu and Kun Tao Silat.

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