Lisa Race

Lisa Race
Lisa Race

Lisa Race has spent most of her career as a performer, teacher and choreographer in New York, where her dances have been seen at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and The Kitchen’s Work-in-Progress series.  Her work, under the guise of Race Dance - has also been seen in various locations around the country, as well as in France, Argentina, Hong Kong and Siberia.  She has taught and choreographed at many universities and festivals here and abroad.  Race danced and toured with David Dorfman Dance from 1989-2000, and was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award, aka “Bessie” in 1995. Race has begun a new chapter in her dance life.  Having received an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival in 2007, she is presently an assistant professor at Connecticut College.  Since moving to Connecticut in 2004, she has shown work locally at Wesleyan University, The Yard, CT Dance Exchange at the Arts & Ideas Festival in New Haven, Roger Williams University and Hartford Arts Academy.  She has received a commission from Brown University and will be setting a work on Rhode Island College students in the fall of 2009.  This summer Race is returning to teach at MADE In France in Melisey, the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC, and Impulstaz in Vienna, and will conclude the summer with a choreographic residency at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard.