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Ellen Fisher
Ellen Fisher’s performance pieces combine various artistic disciplines. Developing a universal language of choreographed actions in tandem with visual components is integral to her creative process. Fisher will show how she uses use narrative devices of gestures and actions, interwoven with an illusionistic layering of cinema, shadow-play, objects and puppets to explore personal and universal identities, myths and fables. World dance rituals and theater, which she has studied, strongly inform her choreography. She has done ethnographic research in trance dance and rituals of South Asia, particularly Sri Lanka. Since 1981, she has toured solo work throughout Europe and the U.S., also directing large ensemble work reinterpreting myths and legends. Her film work, including documentaries, has been included in festivals throughout the world. She performed with Meredith Monk/The House in the ‘70’s, and more recently has appeared in “Mercy”(’05) and “Impermanence.” (’06). She has received funding through the NEA, Art Matters Inc., Jerome Foundation, NYFA and the Asian Cultural Council, winning a 2004 Humanities Fellowship and a 2005 Travel Grant. Fisher continues to teach and collaborate with artists on community intergenerational and intercultural projects, both domestically and internationally.
