photo by Ruha Devanesan.
Lailye Weidman is a dancer and maker, currently based in Urbana-Champaign, IL where she is a teaching fellow and MFA Candidate in Dance at the University of Illinois. Her most recent projects include Dike Dance—a site-specific performance and community dialogue at the Herring River in WellFleet MA (Fleet Moves Festival 2014), Duet Duet--an evening of new collaborative work performed at Figure One Gallery in Champaign, IL, co-producing Place [Maker] Space—an interdisciplinary convergence for artists who work with notions of place, and Soften, Bubble, Preen—a collaborative trio made with Emily Drury and the New England weather. She was a 2012 iLAB artist-in-residence along with Liz Barry (Public Laboratory) and Jess Einhorn (Treekit) investigating the physicality of arial-mapping and dancing with urban wind-patterns. In 2009, she created the Intersection Project, a choreographic map of street corners and abandoned lots in Los Angeles.
Lailye’s work has also been shown at the iLAND Symposium in New York, Anatomy Riot and Pieter PASD in Los Angeles, CounterPulse in San Francisco, and Green Street Studios and the Aviary Gallery in Boston. She was a Spring 2012 Emerging Artist at Green Street Studios in Boston and has been an artist-in-residence at the Hothouse summer residency program at UCLA and the SEEDS Festival 2009 (Somatic Experiments in Earth Dance and Science). She teaches dance improvisation and contemporary dance technique in academic and community settings. Lailye also serves as a contributing editor for Contact Quarterly, a biannual journal of dance, improvisation, and performance.
Lailye’s work has also been shown at the iLAND Symposium in New York, Anatomy Riot and Pieter PASD in Los Angeles, CounterPulse in San Francisco, and Green Street Studios and the Aviary Gallery in Boston. She was a Spring 2012 Emerging Artist at Green Street Studios in Boston and has been an artist-in-residence at the Hothouse summer residency program at UCLA and the SEEDS Festival 2009 (Somatic Experiments in Earth Dance and Science). She teaches dance improvisation and contemporary dance technique in academic and community settings. Lailye also serves as a contributing editor for Contact Quarterly, a biannual journal of dance, improvisation, and performance.