Writings & Interviews
Podcast: Dancing with Ourselves—Performing Arts and Movement in the COVID Era with Rebecca Lazier on We Roar
Released June 18, 2020
“Social distancing has devastated the performing arts and changed how we move through public spaces. . . . Rebecca Lazier considers the impact on artists, theaters and venues, and how we’re all navigating a new concept of togetherness.”
Talk: Flock Logic—How Groups Move in Nature, by Design, and on Stage at TEDxKonstanz
By Naomi Leonard
March 4, 2021
Princeton Professor of Engineering Naomi Leonard, science dramaturg for There Might Be Others, talks about how the intersection of choreographic processes, informed by her research in collective movement, led to breakthroughs in dance and science.
Interview: Relationships that Endure—Silas Riener and Rebecca Lazier
By Allie Weiss
Princeton Alumni Weekly, June 5, 2019
“Silas Riener’s first foray into dance coincided with the beginning of Rebecca Lazier’s time teaching in Princeton’s dance program. A connection formed in the studio morphed into a lasting personal and professional one. Silas Riener: ‘ If there’s a shape to the idea of mentorship, I think it’s about a continuing relationship that is based in inquiry for both of us. The conversation never runs out, and that has been true for the last 15 years.’ ”
Scientific Paper: Social decision-making driven by artistic explore-exploit tension
By Naomi Leonard, Alessio Franci, Biswadip Dey, Kayhan Ozcimder, Dan Trueman, Rebecca Lazier
Interdisciplinary Science Review, January 2019
To develop There Might Be Others, Lazier collaborated with scientists Naomi Leonard, Alessio Franci, Biswadip Dey, and Kayhan Ozcimder to study social decision-making across fields of dance and evolutionary dynamics. Their investigation became integral to the development of the performance and this paper detailing their scientific analysis.
Interview: What I Think—Rebecca Lazier
By Jamie Saxton
Princeton University News, March 21, 2016
Lazier on her life, education, passion for mentorship, size ZZZZZ feet and how she created There Might Be Others with dancers from Turkey, New York, Poland, Greece and Canada.
Interview: [Re:Con]versations —There Might be Others with Dan Trueman, Rebecca Lazier and ELÆ
By Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (ELÆ)
The Operating System, March 16, 2016
A conversation with publisher Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Lazier, and TMBO composer Dan Trueman. DeSilva-Johnson: “When (Rebecca) approached me with the possibility of publishing a score/performance document for her New York Live Arts commission, she was . . . very aware of The OS’s mission vis-a-vis process documentation and the archiving of more ephemeral work. I’m thrilled to have this beautiful volume in our catalog.”
Radio Interview: Dan Trueman and Rebecca Lazier with John Schaefer on WNYC’s New Sounds
Released March 13, 2016
John Schaefer’s WNYC radio programs are New York City treasures. TMBO composer Dan Trueman and Lazier discuss how they developed the intertwined music and dance scores for TMBO and how they were inspired by, and depart from, Terry Riley’s In C.
Essay: Imagine Your Skin—Dance Research In Action published in Spaces of Confinement
By Rebecca Lazier, Editors Vladislav Shapovalov, Katerina Chuchalina
2015
Moscow’s V-A-C Foundation’s art catalogue of their Venice exhibition Spaces of Confinement featured Lazier’s Coming Together/Attica. The exhibition showcased 16 internationally recognized artists focused on the architectures of confinement—prisons, asylums and other correctional facilities—that encapsulate narratives of violence and resistance. The exhibition took place during The 14th International Architecture Exhibition.
Interview: Artist Profile #58—Rebecca Lazier
By Jill Randall
Life as a Modern Dancer, March 2, 2014
“The creative act is not only choreographing or dancing but also the act of creating your career. Try to avoid ‘if only’ thinking. If only I had such and such job, if only I got that grant, if only I performed in x theater, if only I had a great review. There is no one definition of success.”
Interview: La Mama Blog—6 Questions for Rebecca Lazier
May 13, 2014
Lazier shares her process for developing score-based choreography and making the aleatoric work There Might Be Others.
Interview: I Care if You Listen—5 Questions to Rebecca Lazier
By David Pearson
June 11, 2013
“Lazier and her performers team up with Newspeak to present the NY premiere of Coming Together/Attica, an immersive, site-specific dance work to Frederic Rzewski’s iconic scores.”