Assistant Professor of Dance
Modern Dance, Choreography, Improvisation
Loretta Livingston is a contemporary choreographer, performer and
director. Since 1984 she has directed her performance ensemble, Loretta
Livingston & Dancers, collaborating with dancers, composers,
musicians, designers, video artists and visual artists. In addition to
creating projects for her company she takes choreographic commissions,
creating work for dancers as far away as New Zealand and Turkey. Prior
to forming her company she danced for ten years with the Bella Lewitzky
Dance Company, performing throughout the United States and Canada, as
well as in Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal
and Switzerland.
Ms. Livingston has received numerous awards and honors, including the
2003 Artist Award from the California Dance Educators Association, the
2002 California DanceMaker Grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the
2002 City of Los Angeles "C.O.L.A." Individual Artist Fellowship, the
first commission from the Orange County Performing Arts Center in 2000,
the 1995 Professional Artist Award from the California Alliance for Arts
Education, the 1994 Distinguished Artist Award from the Los Angeles
Music Center, and the 1990 Dewar's Young Artist Recognition Award. In
addition to her individual awards, her company and artistic
collaborators have received many Lester Horton Dance Awards in Los
Angeles for the performance, choreography, music and design of her
projects.
Ms. Livingston has been involved in special projects that cross
cultural and international boundaries. She was invited to collaborate
with Danza Floricanto/USA, a Mexican folklorico company in 1998, as well
as to participate in a special improvisation project with master
improviser Simone Forti in Paris in 2000. In 2002 she was the designated
choreographer for the first round of NCCI projects (National College
Choreography Initiative), collaborating with the Dance Program at the
University of Central Oklahoma and Native American visual artist Anita
Fields of the Osage Nation, and Oklahoma composer Steve McLinn. In the
fall of 2003 she was sent to Istanbul, Turkey, by the U.S. Department of
State under Public Diplomacy and Cultural Programs, to teach and create
new choreography in the Modern Dance Program at Yildiz Technical
University.
Ms. Livingston creates dance works for both large and small
performance spaces, mixes improvisation with set choreographies,
experiments with voice and text, uses live music onstage and expands her
dance work with visual and video collaborations.
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