Public Moves: Balletomania
with Elizabeth Ward

Mon 14.07., 17.00h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

Choreographer and dancer Elizabeth invites you for a special treat on the dance floor. There will be bending and stretching, turning and jumping in a balletic way supported by the sounds of electro, goth rock, techno. No experience necessary, simply an enthusiasm for dancing together.

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography

Elizabeth Ward is a dancer, choreographer and occasional outside eye living in Vienna. Previously she has lived and worked in New York City, Athens, Brussels, and Portland, Oregon. Her work explores the collective histories of dance lineages accumulated in a dancer’s muscle memory as a living archaeology. Some of the performance festivals and venues she has been presented by include The Kitchen (New York), Danspace Projects (New York), Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York), Disjecta (Portland), Tanzquartier (Vienna), AUNTS (New York), Pieter PASD (Los Angeles), ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, steirischer herbst (Graz), Wiener Festwochen, ANA (Copenhagen), and Trinosophes (Detroit). As a performer, she has collaborated and participated in the works of Cathy Weis, DD Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Jennifer Lacey, Frédéric Gies, Michikazu Matsune, Manuel Pelmuș, Anne Juren, Philipp Gehmacher, Veza Fernández, Antonjia Livingstone, Samuel Feldhandler, Trajal Harrell, Rebecca Brooks, Biba Bell, and Heather Kravas, amongst others. Currently, she is engaged in an ongoing artistic research project, entitled Trillium and the Patient Labor of Dance, supported by a 2024 Arbeitsstipendium from Stadt Wien Kultur. Elizabeth studied Dance and Ecology at Bennington College in Vermont.

Photo: © Julie Calbert