Elizabeth Ward | Artist
Elizabeth Ward, * 1977 in Detroit/USA, is a dancer, choreographer, and occasional Outside Eye living in Vienna. Their work explores the collective histories of dance lineages accumulated in a dancer’s muscle memory as a living archaeology. She is intrigued by how individual and collective dance histories are shaped by geography and the movements of people and ideas.
Some of the performance festivals and venues she has been presented by include the Kitchen (NYC), Danspace Projects (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Disjecta (Portland), Tanzquartier (Vienna), AUNTS (NYC), Pieter PASD (LA), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), steirischerherbst (Graz), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), ANA (Copenhagen), and Trinosophes (Detroit).
As a performer, she has collaborated and participated in the works of Cathy Weis, DD Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Jennifer Lacey, Frédéric Gies, Michikazu Matsune, Manuel Pelmuș, Trajal Harrell, Anne Juren, Philipp Gehmacher, Veza Fernández, Antonjia Livingstone, Samuel Feldhandler, Rebecca Brooks, Biba Bell, and Heather Kravas, amongst others.
Elizabeth Ward received her BA from Bennington College in Vermont where she studied Choreography and Ecology and later participated in the Brussels-based a.pass artistic research program. Currently she is the mentor for the 2025 Artistic Research SCHULE at Im_flieger.