Welcome to dancelikething.org
Elizabeth Waterhouse is a dance scholar and dancer expanding the field of contemporary dance and living in Bern, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in dance studies from the University of Bern/Hochschule der Künste Bern, and has worked over a fifteen years a performer and dramaturg, notably for a decade as a dancer with Ballett Frankfurt/The Forsythe Company. As an artist and scholar, she has taken part in creating over 25 new productions and writing 15 publications. Making use of her unusual education across the humanities (PhD dance studies), arts (MFA dance) and sciences (BA Physics), she has been a leader of projects that examine movement practices and their discourses. She frequent teaches workshops and University courses pertaining to creative process, movement techniques and choreography. Liz learned to program in 1994, and this website is a nostalgic reloading of her HTML skills and 90's internet aesthetics.
CV:
Video Reel:
click here (email Liz for password)
Images:
Publications:
Documentation of Projects and Teaching:
I. Research
Dancing Together (2016-2020), University of Bern - lay summary - conference
Motion Together (2016-2018), Free University of Berlin - link
HOOD Ensemble (2015 - 2017), PACT Zollverein
Störung (2015)/הפרעה Dance & Parkinson Disease, Theater Freiburg - video - link
Synchronous Objects (2006-2008), The Ohio State University - link
II. Artistic Work
Dramaturgy and Choreographic Assistance:
In Act & Thought (2015) by Fabrice Mazliah and the dancers, The Forsythe Company - trailer - link
Don't Play! Eine Dokumentarische Spectralgymnastik (2013) with and by Jens Heitjohann, Max Schneider & El Perro Andaluz, Schaubühne Lindenfels - video - link - text
Josefine (2012) by Sagardia, Directed by Christian Grammel, Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach - video - link
Sider (2010) by William Forsythe, The Forsythe Company - video
Outside Eye:
The Way You Looked Tonight (2015) by Emma Murray, Bern Dampfzentrale - trailer
Eifo Efi (2013) by Ioannis Mandafounis and Fabrice Mazliah, MaMaZa - link - video - program text
Zero (2011) by Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah and May Zahry, MaMaZa - program text
Collaborations, Dramaturgy for Visual Art and Design:
Artist Lectures:
Kaserne Basel - T h e e x p a n d e d f i e l d o f c h o r e o g r a p h y (2017) - link
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt - Dance|SPEAK to Me! (2015) - link
Performance:
Liz Waterhouse/Chris Lechner - How to Make a Monster (2019), Schloss Holligen (2019) - flyer
Saskia Bladt/Anna Sofie Lugmeier - TERRA, Münchener Biennale/ECLAT Festival (2018, 2019) - video - link
Lucie Tuma - On the Rocks, Gessneralle Zürich (2016) - video - link
Saskia Bladt - Daphne, Villa Mossimo (2015) - video - link
Collective Ludwig - Aporia (2014) - video - link
Liz Waterhouse - Ingeborg Ruvina Project (2014), Theater Rigiblick Zürich
The Forsythe Company:
William Forsythe - One Flat Thing, reproduced (2005) - video (ambient sound), website
III. Teaching (since 2012)
P.A.R.T.S - Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, Brussels - Forsythe Improvisation Technologies (2020) - link - documentation
Hochschule der Künste Bern - Composing Duos (2019) - link
University of Bern, CAS Performative Künst - Analog & Digital Folds: Documenting Dance (2018) - link
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel - Dancing & Choreographic Scores (2016) - link
PACT Zollverein, IMPACT16, HOOD Workshop - documentation
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel - TransFormingMovement (2016) - audio documentation
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel - Contemporary Dance at the Interface of Design (2015, 2016) - course description
3. Biennale Tanzausbildung, Frankfurt am Main, Workshop with Jeanning Durning - Out-Score/In-Score (2012) - CQ Article
Last Updated: 04/2020