Professor of Dance
Department Chair
Modern Dance, Choreography, Improvisation, Dance and Digital Technology, Motion Capture, Pedagogy
Lisa Naugle, Ph.D. is a Professor of Dance in the Dance
Department of the School of the Arts at the University of California,
Irvine. She is the recipient of the Cecil and Ida Green Honors
Professor's Award, 2000. She holds a Ph.D and MFA in dance from New York
University. Lisa was a member of the Nancy Hauser Dance Company and has
performed with several dance companies in the United States and Canada.
Her background as a dancer includes work with Hanya Holm, Alwin
Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, and Eric Hawkins.
Her current research and creative activity centers on computer-based
applications for dance including motion capture, telematic performance,
and interactive technology. Lisa's telematic performance works,
Voyage of Aeneas:FIXED/NOT, Reverse Patterns,
Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope, The Cassandra
Project, and Janus/Ghost Stories integrate dance, music
and interactive video in distributed performances linking different
geographical locations across the United States and Canada. Dancing in
the Active Space and The AVA Project involve motion capture animation
with live dancers influencing sound and video. Her videodance,
inviTRIO, was presented in the Dance and the Camera Festival in
New York City. Other recent work includes Portal, Split and
Invisible Walls, a dance trilogy exploring the use of processed
digital video and computer-based interactivity in live performance.
She has performed and choreographed in London, Amsterdam, Germany,
Italy, Poland, Hungary and Canada, as well as throughout the USA. Her
papers have been published in Dance Research Journal, Performance Art
Journal, Journal for Distance Education and in numerous conference
proceedings. She is active member of Congress on Research in Dance and
was a founding member of the International Dance and Technology
organization.
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