dana deanna livermore

dlivermore@hollins.edu

 

Education:

B.A./B.F.A. in Dance, B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Hollins Univeristy (Roanoke, VA)

Explored dance-making processes/movement practices with Donna Faye Burchfield and Jeffery Bullock (Hollins Dance Department faculty), Douglas Becker (Hollins Guest Artist in Residence), Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lisa Race, Jenn Nugent, Erika Hand, Isabel Lewis, Jesse Zaritt, Dawn Springer, Gerri Houlihan, Miguel Gutierrez, Mark Haim, Yvonne Meier, Nicholas Leichter, Brenda Daniels, Karen Finley, Andrea Woods, Yangkeun Kim, Sara Procopio, Tony Orrico, Mauyra Kerr

Attended ADF New York, January 2008. Faculty included: Gerri Houlihan, Pamela Pietro, John Jasperse

Attended ADF Summer in Durham, NC 2008

 

Work:

Learned/Performed guest artist work by Douglas Becker, Ayo Jackson, Emily Wexler

Choreographed "all lost things" in collaboration with Megan Rindoks in 2008, "Balloonscapes" in collaboration with Kat Folckomer and Emily Suggs in 2009, and "bellamy, I don't know what to call this" in 2009

Currently working on new projects including "the plant piece" and "Gravel" (a look at the absent presence of the body in space and video)

Intern at The Feminist Press at CUNY, New York, intern at The Junebug Center in Floyd, VA, local coffee shop barista, writer, life-long student

Recipient of the Hobbie Trust Grant, Nancy Penn Holsenbeck Prize, and runner-up for the Lex Allen Literary Festival Poetry Prize at Hollins University