Janice Lancaster

When I dance, make dance, and you see that dancing, I am interested in the bridge between us.

I made a short film. I posted it to Youtube and someone I never met, and shared only virtual time with, wrote, “You are like my magic beanstalk, twining itself around the wrought iron balustrade outside my window.” So sometimes the bridge may look like a beanstalk twining outside your window.

I invite trajectories in thinking. And if our bridge shakes while both of us are on it, even better. Trajectories in thinking move us to move.

In a field of potential, I think of this bridged moment, as a space within space, its choreography, as event.

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Janice Lancaster is a Brooklyn based dance artist currently at haven in Hollins University’s MFA Program. She has received choreographic commissions through the 2007 Bessie Schönberg Choreographic Residency on the Yard (Chilmark, MA), the Hubbard Street 2 Dance Company (Chicago, IL), the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center (Asheville, NC), Joyce Soho Presents (New York, NY), and many through VIA Dance Collaborative (New York, NY). She has shared work in New York City at Dance New Amsterdam, The Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Galapagos Art Space’s Frameworks Film Series, Joyce Soho Presents, Dixon Place’s Underexposed Series, Movement Research’s Open Performance, and One Arm Red – and elsewhere at Performática (Puebla/Cholula, Mexico); The Fulton Opera House (Lancaster, PA), The McCallum Theatre (Palm Desert, CA); The Casa Hoffman (Curitiba, Brazil); and The Honolulu Theatre for Youth (Honolulu, HI), and has taught and staged works at the Roger Williams University in RI, the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC, and the State University of NY in Fredonia. While continuing to produce and exhibit her own work, she has had the pleasure of dancing as a guest soloist for Shen Wei Dance Arts, as well as with Abby Chan, Satoshi Haga, Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group, and co-founding VIA Dance Collaborative.