https://emmalanier.com Emma Lanier Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:01:15 +0000 https://emmalanier.com en https://emmalanier.com/Portfolio Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:21:05 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Portfolio Emma Lanier Emma is an artist in Berlin who works with movement, objects, and sound. https://emmalanier.com/About Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:21:05 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/About About emmahalladey [at] gmail [dot] com <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d748dd2bd81010c439148b1434f44681d2111d7e49eba71ddd7917f96e41d70f/_83A4049.jpg" data-mid="127888721" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d748dd2bd81010c439148b1434f44681d2111d7e49eba71ddd7917f96e41d70f/_83A4049.jpg" /> Emma Lanier is a dance artist who was born and raised in San Francisco. She trained at ODC and went on to study at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza in Madrid, and at Skidmore College in New York, where she was the recipient of the 2016 Margaret Paulding Award for outstanding performance, choreography, and research in critical dance studies. She has presented her work nationally at Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO,) David Zwirner Gallery (New York, NY,) and locally at San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox, Fresh Festival, James Graham Dance Theatre’s Dance Lovers, LevySalon, SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, ODC Pilot71, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Sonoma Community Center. As a co-director of Kickbal, she received the 2020 ODC Theater Fleishhacker Opportunity Fund to produce HOMEBODY at ODC Theater in San Francisco. She has recently performed with KT Nelson, Cauveri Suresh, and Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works.&nbsp; https://emmalanier.com/Chain-Mail Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:59:10 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Chain-Mail Chain Mail 2023 Creativity Explored&nbsp; Merde Project&nbsp; Ongoing <img width="3125" height="3024" width_o="3125" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71d7e4064e49f3b225db1c9442eb0b36befb79ecb4f6b8678173cb912e0d1122/IMG_0661.jpeg" data-mid="196767083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71d7e4064e49f3b225db1c9442eb0b36befb79ecb4f6b8678173cb912e0d1122/IMG_0661.jpeg" /> Chain Mail is a collaboration between dance artists Emma Lanier and Cauveri Suresh, and ceramic artist Reniel Del Rosario.&nbsp;This work&nbsp;studies the paradox of ceramic chains fabricated by Del Rosario. Their physical properties—what sounds ceramic links make, how they move, what tasks they can be used for, and their innate fragility—are points of inquiry. They are source material for movement generation as well as objects to partner with through the course of the dance. VIDEO of Chain Mail at Creativity Explored REVIEW of Chain Mail by Jen Norris Fall 2023 Performances: Thursday November 9th, 5-7pm at Creativity Explored Chain Mail performance with Reniel Del Rosario as part of Creativity Explored 40th anniversary exhibition&nbsp;Old Friends/New Friends&nbsp; Friday November 17th and Saturday November 18th, 8pm at Merde Project [CANCELLED] Commission by Merde Project (Kristin Damrow &amp; Company) to present Chain Mail at Joe Goode Annex More about this project: As a collective, we create interdisciplinary site-specific performances that consider relationships between bodies, between body and object, body and space, and object and space. We began working together in 2021, during which time our collaborative has explored alternative modes for creating and presenting our artworks that attune closely to the site, make use of unusual spaces and vantage points, and consider how to communicate across mediums. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/422fc6ed42ec912b4a3c88f48a6e0fa3cb26331b9e8eb4fbcea60b713840b6d3/IMG_0681.JPG" data-mid="196767131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/422fc6ed42ec912b4a3c88f48a6e0fa3cb26331b9e8eb4fbcea60b713840b6d3/IMG_0681.JPG" /> <img width="1910" height="3103" width_o="1910" height_o="3103" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73365a7c0190d7c5993f6d8b84c9612ae2501b6ccee9d8ed8ec41e245795e00a/IMG_0657.JPG" data-mid="196767137" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73365a7c0190d7c5993f6d8b84c9612ae2501b6ccee9d8ed8ec41e245795e00a/IMG_0657.JPG" /> https://emmalanier.com/Bull-in-a-Chino-Shop Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:01:15 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Bull-in-a-Chino-Shop Bull in a Chino Shop 2022 Sonoma Community Center <img width="1646" height="1121" width_o="1646" height_o="1121" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d961c69a16cec861df0d9b0c734e5b8937cd76a7c666f834e06013fdc6946fd/bull_in_a_chino_shop1.jpg" data-mid="192751206" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d961c69a16cec861df0d9b0c734e5b8937cd76a7c666f834e06013fdc6946fd/bull_in_a_chino_shop1.jpg" /> Collaboration with ceramic artist Reniel del Rosario in conjunction with his exhibition Urban Legends, while in residence at Sonoma Community Center (Sonoma, CA.)&nbsp; VIDEO https://emmalanier.com/Project-Nav Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:21:06 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Project-Nav Index &nbsp; &nbsp; Next ︎ https://emmalanier.com/EZ-Sand Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:17:42 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/EZ-Sand EZ Sand a dance with my dad about clay 2022 RoundAntennae residency at Zaccho 2023 First Voice’s Moments at ODC EZ Sand is a dance about clay by Emma Lanier and her dad, ceramic artist Paul Lanier. Uncharted territory for both of them,&nbsp;the work is a study on corporeality and materiality, djing, and artmaking in family. https://emmalanier.com/Audio-Textural-Bodies Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:21:06 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Audio-Textural-Bodies Audio Textural Bodies 2021 BOXBLUR, Catharine Clark Gallery Created and performed by Emma Lanier and Cauveri Suresh. Audio Textural Bodies was commissioned by BOXBLUR in conjunction with Catharine Clark Gallery’s exhibition, Open Field, and is accompanied by composer Phyllis Chen’s Tone Grove, featuring both recorded sound and live performance by LigoranoReese. Lanier and Suresh chose to develop this work primarily in conversation with LigoranoReese’s compositions for music boxes in the series “Listening to the Material” that are featured in the exhibition, Open Field. Because Lanier and Suresh had the opportunity to hold all rehearsals at the gallery, they were able be highly receptive and source their material from works in the exhibition, not only LigoranoReese’s music boxes, but also the works of Mary Muszynski, Anni Albers, Amy Trachtenberg, and Reniel Del Rosario. The raw material the dancers created gave way to playful and detailed movement phrases with names such as “Tapestry,” “Interlocking,” “Bra,” and “Bad Bunny Retrograde.” One point of inquiry for this work involved taking LigoranoReese’s punchcards, and translating them into a movement phrase. Dots in twos and threes and fours punctuate the long scrolls of paper, while diagonal and vertical lines cut across and through the paper, creating scales and repetition. The punchcards already translate visual patterns from Anni Albers’ weavings and prints into graphic music compositions, so Lanier and Suresh assigned themselves the task of translating that translation. The result was a peculiar unison crawling pattern on the floor that no one would know was derived from Albers’ works on paper and weavings, but exists as an example of LigoranoReese’s view that “patterns and graphics often contain embedded information that is unseen but not neutral.” Another task that the artists took upon themselves was creating two separate movement phrases using a series of words in a chance-operation of sorts, a humble salute to Merce Cunninham. From there, they painstakingly wove the two phrases together, move by move, creating an unusual sequence that one person alone would not have created. This task-based practice focuses on rigor and structure, without the aim of creating something aesthetically pleasing or expressive. By creating daily problems for themselves to solve, the artists accumulated a series movement ideas that they reworked and re-ordered into a performable score. In this project, Lanier and Suresh’s modalities for creating resemble the experimentation within formal confines, problem-solving, and structured exploration that grounded many of the artists and thinkers that taught and studied at Black Mountain. The result is a playful fifteen minute-long dance that bounces across the gallery’s vestibule, looks back at the pedagogy and lineages that brought us here, dances with what is happening now, and looks ahead to what is next. <img width="1386" height="1032" width_o="1386" height_o="1032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62afa635b177352f10d77f3bb05dfce16471d53299626539901ecdf8e04dcd15/CCG_photo.png" data-mid="125895310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62afa635b177352f10d77f3bb05dfce16471d53299626539901ecdf8e04dcd15/CCG_photo.png" /> <img width="1125" height="1067" width_o="1125" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cc81ac5bb57cb9ae6eb4d9a6faec49f1322555c458490b63a7d89eb40ed573a/IMG_0146.PNG" data-mid="125895309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cc81ac5bb57cb9ae6eb4d9a6faec49f1322555c458490b63a7d89eb40ed573a/IMG_0146.PNG" /> <img width="1125" height="1093" width_o="1125" height_o="1093" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa99896dbcda590477049dec4775b15e1357b6d80d8c653e2351ac3e0aa01203/IMG_0147.PNG" data-mid="125895308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa99896dbcda590477049dec4775b15e1357b6d80d8c653e2351ac3e0aa01203/IMG_0147.PNG" /> <img width="992" height="992" width_o="992" height_o="992" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32c000cc579501c84a51ff128e2acf3e08e9a0c1e36d939bea866e6d61e018aa/IMG_0148.PNG" data-mid="125895307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/992/i/32c000cc579501c84a51ff128e2acf3e08e9a0c1e36d939bea866e6d61e018aa/IMG_0148.PNG" /> https://emmalanier.com/Flux Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:46:25 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Flux Flux 2021 SoundBox, San Francisco Symphony Video -&nbsp;https://www.sfsymphonyplus.org/focus-nico-muhly Flux (2021) Lukáš Janata, composerNico Muhly, conductorEmma Lanier, choreographerWorld Premiere. San Francisco Symphony CommissionSF Symphony Collaborative Partner and composer Nico Muhly curates a SoundBox program where the elements of music and performance oscillate in and out of focus in fascinating ways. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85dfe789242922bbc7589901e281554cbcbbfcd1ba3bf2ed3be9502392fdfd79/Sequence_0600_27_21_22Still005.jpg" data-mid="125896062" border="0" alt="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" data-caption="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85dfe789242922bbc7589901e281554cbcbbfcd1ba3bf2ed3be9502392fdfd79/Sequence_0600_27_21_22Still005.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e0341f8fe38319695b23b803312ea9964cc379d5fe4be9e40ce386395929921/Sequence_0600_28_22_16Still031.jpg" data-mid="125896063" border="0" alt="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" data-caption="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e0341f8fe38319695b23b803312ea9964cc379d5fe4be9e40ce386395929921/Sequence_0600_28_22_16Still031.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c16c3efb68398535ad65e90748cbe68033e6606269d8ceae3aac5aebbe2c2fe4/Sequence_0600_29_25_22Still016.jpg" data-mid="125896064" border="0" alt="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" data-caption="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c16c3efb68398535ad65e90748cbe68033e6606269d8ceae3aac5aebbe2c2fe4/Sequence_0600_29_25_22Still016.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/267302a1b71f7c1410861214ce1f36d6df6344e0f4f7b9fe0083feb27e915a85/Sequence_0600_29_43_09Still017.jpg" data-mid="125896065" border="0" alt="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" data-caption="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/267302a1b71f7c1410861214ce1f36d6df6344e0f4f7b9fe0083feb27e915a85/Sequence_0600_29_43_09Still017.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87619538dfdca0eadf1e9fdd1a04af841e93a9dba78583a1facae52ef4e3b8f0/Sequence_0600_31_33_03Still022.jpg" data-mid="125896066" border="0" alt="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" data-caption="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87619538dfdca0eadf1e9fdd1a04af841e93a9dba78583a1facae52ef4e3b8f0/Sequence_0600_31_33_03Still022.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/104da67a8fae00a54f4601f5a7100450b72789d92a4c72c919df1d9461f8d62c/Sequence_0600_31_44_08Still023.jpg" data-mid="125896067" border="0" alt="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" data-caption="photo / Steven Condiotti 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/104da67a8fae00a54f4601f5a7100450b72789d92a4c72c919df1d9461f8d62c/Sequence_0600_31_44_08Still023.jpg" /> https://emmalanier.com/Anagama Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:59:28 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/Anagama Anagama 2017 Anagama (2017)Created and performed by Emma LanierPresented in 2017 at David Zwirner Gallery (New York, NY) and 63 Bluxome Street (SF, CA) In 2018 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO)and in 2019 at SAFEHouse Arts (SF, CA)&nbsp;Anagama is a 25 minute solo using movement, language, and objects. In this work, after an injury threatened to take away her identity as a dancer, Lanier reassembles the pieces of her vocabulary to find a voice that is truly hers. The score includes her own voice and the voices of her father, potter Paul Lanier, and her grandmother, sculptor Ruth Asawa. <img width="2463" height="1818" width_o="2463" height_o="1818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/791eb17e37a479293689107e09f890101f5c82471baaa47e061d2f8b1b41b82c/1_Emma-Lanier-25-cropped_Virginia-Harold-2018.jpeg" data-mid="125896368" border="0" alt="photo / Virginia Harold 2019" data-caption="photo / Virginia Harold 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/791eb17e37a479293689107e09f890101f5c82471baaa47e061d2f8b1b41b82c/1_Emma-Lanier-25-cropped_Virginia-Harold-2018.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a3e806580f20b46485d5283b21094513f3ebab69538365c252bffa71ddf48b4/anagama_fabric_Anastasiia-Sapon.jpeg" data-mid="125896369" border="0" alt="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" data-caption="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a3e806580f20b46485d5283b21094513f3ebab69538365c252bffa71ddf48b4/anagama_fabric_Anastasiia-Sapon.jpeg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f667398588536500599f6cdb2a04a31db8efb27a38c64d6da63961821656af5/Anagama1_Anastasiia_Sapon2017.jpg" data-mid="125896370" border="0" alt="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" data-caption="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f667398588536500599f6cdb2a04a31db8efb27a38c64d6da63961821656af5/Anagama1_Anastasiia_Sapon2017.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c8d49554aef64b5a24dda982d0f3bd176b5a4a7b03017a02f1635131ce9c4c0/Anagama2_Anastasiia_Sapon2017.jpg" data-mid="125896371" border="0" alt="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" data-caption="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c8d49554aef64b5a24dda982d0f3bd176b5a4a7b03017a02f1635131ce9c4c0/Anagama2_Anastasiia_Sapon2017.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5798bcc027ad93725637638b132ffffbb65cb5f0da3c8b61f3a0543d46edfbd5/Anagama3_Anastasiia_Sapon2017.jpg" data-mid="125896372" border="0" alt="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" data-caption="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5798bcc027ad93725637638b132ffffbb65cb5f0da3c8b61f3a0543d46edfbd5/Anagama3_Anastasiia_Sapon2017.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/605549af9229124cf7a57e270202c004b2d3cf28b5af80d51579a4b2fea0af61/Anagama4_Anastasiia_Sapon-2017.jpg" data-mid="125896373" border="0" alt="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" data-caption="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2017" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/605549af9229124cf7a57e270202c004b2d3cf28b5af80d51579a4b2fea0af61/Anagama4_Anastasiia_Sapon-2017.jpg" /> https://emmalanier.com/HOMEBODY Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:13:15 +0000 Emma Lanier https://emmalanier.com/HOMEBODY HOMEBODY 2020 Emma Lanier and Ky Frances (Kickbal) received the 2020 ODC Theater Fleishhacker Opportunity Fund to present HOMEBODY, an evening-length work featuring five dancers and an original score by composer Melissa Weikart. Personal and abstract, HOMEBODY is a series of unexpected episodes, distinct in content, but all inexplicably organized around the color yellow. The show was slated to take place in April 2020, and was cancelled. An outdoor iteration in December 2020 was also cancelled. Kickbal worked with filmmakers Naomi Garcia Pasmanick and LaTajh Weaver to document what happened in outdoor rehearsals during the pandemic. The film includes Julie Crothers, Ky Frances, Audrey Johnson, Emma Lanier, Chelsea Reichert, and Cauveri Suresh. <img width="671" height="900" width_o="671" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed9005fec4842dcffcf99b2c164dbc156d6e347827c0867767d5e52ba3209f92/Kickbal_press_photo_1_Anastasiia-Sapon.jpeg" data-mid="125897133" border="0" alt="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2020" data-caption="photo / Anastasiia Sapon 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/671/i/ed9005fec4842dcffcf99b2c164dbc156d6e347827c0867767d5e52ba3209f92/Kickbal_press_photo_1_Anastasiia-Sapon.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="1039" width_o="1024" height_o="1039" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/665726204ca68bc28d652f381ff22f7e382b38a0321c4844d4a6ac7a88721ac3/kb-10_Abby-Banks.jpg" data-mid="125897135" border="0" alt="photo / Abby Banks 2020" data-caption="photo / Abby Banks 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/665726204ca68bc28d652f381ff22f7e382b38a0321c4844d4a6ac7a88721ac3/kb-10_Abby-Banks.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="1039" width_o="1024" height_o="1039" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fdc24e29a65fb6b579f06837aa4ba83448976eb4cd41edf3a13b7a25ae06fea/KB-6_Abby-Banks.jpg" data-mid="125897136" border="0" alt="photo / Abby Banks 2020" data-caption="photo / Abby Banks 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fdc24e29a65fb6b579f06837aa4ba83448976eb4cd41edf3a13b7a25ae06fea/KB-6_Abby-Banks.jpg" /> <img width="3089" height="2048" width_o="3089" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/489be82e07d228a25c9d5987ac0cf00885a8a372bb3fc6746f8b607d42f85bcd/KB-A_Abby-Banks.jpg" data-mid="125897137" border="0" alt="photo / Abby Banks 2020" data-caption="photo / Abby Banks 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/489be82e07d228a25c9d5987ac0cf00885a8a372bb3fc6746f8b607d42f85bcd/KB-A_Abby-Banks.jpg" /> <img width="3089" height="2048" width_o="3089" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75757c59526e33c48a105a0d0cee715d0536fd9ae0e6e8b86c443808d413ec9b/KB-F_Abby-Banks.jpg" data-mid="125897138" border="0" alt="photo / Abby Banks 2020" data-caption="photo / Abby Banks 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75757c59526e33c48a105a0d0cee715d0536fd9ae0e6e8b86c443808d413ec9b/KB-F_Abby-Banks.jpg" />