Liza Clark
Originally from Northern California, Liza Clark is now a Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, yoga practitioner and educator. Her artistic interests focus on site-specific contemplative performance and improvisation. As choreographer she has self-produced performances at Mascher Space Co-op; shown work in IN FLUX Performance Series, Festival42, Glue Performance Series, Walt Whitman Arts Center Women’s History Showcase and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival; and was choreographer for the opera Elixir of Love at Swarthmore College. She has danced in the work of Mascher Dance Group, Nicole Bindler, Leah Stein, Ju-Yeon Ryu, and Rebecca Patek. Her most influential teachers include Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Sharon Friedler, Sally Hess, Sheila Humphreys, Jacek Luminski, and Joan White.
Her interests in yoga, improvisation and movement research led her to become a student of Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen through the School for Body-Mind Centering. She graduated from this program in December 2007 and will graduate from their course in Infant Developmental Movement Education in June 2008. Since fall 2006, she has been teaching creative movement and dance-theater with HATCH Dance Theater, and has recently begun teaching developmental movement to local dancers.
As co-director of Mascher Space Co-op she has been integral to developing this greenhouse of dance activity in Philadelphia. She has her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in Dance and English and is currently Arts Administration Intern for the Dance and Theater departments at Swarthmore College.
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