News

july 13, 2022

Crip Movement Lab (Kayla Hamilton + Elisabeth Motley) Guest Artists in Petra Kuppers’s MELT Workshop with Movement Research: Starship Somatics

june 24, 2022

International Federation for Theatre Research Conference - Performance & Disability Working Group (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Presentation of paper: “Crip Movement Lab: Disability as a Generative Framework for Movement and Creative Practice”

june 20, 2022 4:30-6:30 pm EST

Crip Movement Lab (co-founders Kayla Hamilton and Elisabeth Motley) at InterdepenDance Collective (Vancouver, BC)

march 14, 2022 6:00-8:00 pm + march 26, 2022 12:00-2:00 pm EST

Crip Movement Lab (co-founders Kayla Hamilton and Elisabeth Motley)

Movement Research 2021/2022 Festival

https://movementresearch.org/event/16631

february 25, 2022

Invited Talk with NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and Yo-Yo Lin’s course “Media-making as a Healing Practice”

Talk on Anarchivic Relief (Creating a Framework - Reclaiming the Archive: Ownership and Legibility)

february 22, 2022 6:00 pm EST

Crip Movement Lab (co-founders Kayla Hamilton and Elisabeth Motley)

Hosted by Dance/NYC’s Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residency Program and Gibney Dance, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies.

2022 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist Choreography Commission Grant

Grant sponsored by Arts Society of Kingston, NY.

december 2021

Critical Correspondence: Cory Nakasue + Elisabeth Motley in Conversation

https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/cory-nakasue-and-elisabeth-motley-in-conversation

december 2021

Dance NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residency Program

https://www.dance.nyc/programs/funds/dda/artist-residency/grantees-2021-2022

october 9, 2021 @ 7:30 + 8:30 pm

O+ Festival: Elisabeth Motley / Colored Shadow

This event will be outdoors, attentive to Covid-19 protocols, and social distancing. https://opositivefestival.org/alumnus/elisabeth-motley/

june 2021

Dance Magazine: How Neurodivergence Informs Elisabeth Motley’s Creations by Meredith Fages

https://www.dancemagazine.com/elisabeth-motley/

june 11 + 12, 2021 @ 8:30 pm

Arts Society of Kingston Presents: Elisabeth Motley / Colored Shadow

This event will be outdoors, attentive to Covid-19 protocols, and social distancing. 

Tickets  $15 Friday, June 11 + $5 Suggested Donation Saturday, June 12

Location Cornell Creative Arts Center Parking Lot (Entrance at 88 Bruyn Ave. Kingston, NY 12401)

https://goo.gl/maps/W2KTFt9etzi9WP42A

august 2020

Recipient of Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship

december 12, 2019

Movement Research at the Judson, NYC – Work in Progress of “chorea” 

december 5, 2019

Research Presentation: University of Roehampton: London England “Indeterminable Bodies: Thinking Through Choreographies of Neurodivergence”

2019–2021

Movement Research Artist in Residence

2018–2019

Fulbright US-UK Scholar Award for Teaching & Research
University of Roehampton – London, England

november 7, 2018

Center for Dance Research
University of Roehampton – London, England
Lecture/Demonstration: How My Body Should Move: Borderless-ness and Fluidity Of Identity Through Movement 

may–august 2018

Brooklyn Arts Exchange Parent Space Grantee, NYC

december 31, 2017

Dixon Place, NYC
Excerpt 15

november 2016

Danspace Project DraftWork, NY.
Flinch/SpeckWith Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ariel Lembeck, & Elisabeth Motley

august 2016

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, MASS.
Flinch/SpeckWith Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ariel Lembeck, & Elisabeth Motley

april 22–23, 2016

Gibney Dance New York, NY
Work Up 2.4
With Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ariel Lembeck, & Elisabeth Motley

december 15, 2015

Center for Performance Research Brooklyn, NY
PSOH (Performance Studio Open House)
New work-in-progress showing
With Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ariel Lembeck, & Elisabeth Motley

december 2, 2015

Trisha Brown Dance Studio New York, NY
New work-in-progress showing, Invite Only
With Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ariel Lembeck, & Elisabeth Motley

july 2015

Faculty Peridance Teen Intensive

june 11+13, 2015

New Voices In Live Performance, Center for Performance Research

november–february 2015

Artist in Residence, Chez Bushwick
AIR Performance Feb 5 + 6

february 2015

Bowdin College- AIR

october 21–22, 2014

Health Wellness & Dance Panel, Lafayette College

 august  2014, july 2013

Juiliard Summer Intensive
Guest Choreographer, Teacher

march 2–8, 2014

Snow College- Ephraim, Utah
Visiting Choreographer

november 8, 2013

Montreal, CAN
Drill Piece, Excerpt

september 20–21, 2013

Center for Performance Research, Williamsburg, NY. Performance of Drill Piece.

august 2013

Dance New Amsterdam Modern Guest Artist

june 9–28, 2013

Springboard Danse Montreal. E-Choreographer. Creation of Site Responsive Performance work at Usine C Theatre, Montreal, Canada

june 4, 2013

Dance Conversations at the Flea

april 18–21, 2013

West End Theater, NYC

march 7–10, 2013

Virginia Regional High School Dance Festival. Performance of Drill Piece, Repertory Master Classes

january 13, 2013

APAP Showcase, NYC

january 8, 2013

Mascher Space Co-op, Philadelphia, PA- Excerpt of Drill Piece

january 4, 2013

Center for Performance Research, NYC – Excerpt of Drill Piece