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In performance in Nichol Mason Lazenby's evening-length work, Her Truth, Her Story, presented June 2016 at Motion 41, Omaha Nebraska. With dancer Annie Alice Alice Schenzel in the foreground. Photo credit Jim L. Williams. A film still from Tori Lawrence's dance film Man and Woman with Plants, filmed in rural Iowa, May 2015.
With Seth Wenger. www.torilawrence.org |
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"Till You Get" performed as part of Talk the Temple, an evening of interdisciplinary and intermedia performances, curated by Heidi Wiren Bartlett and Kuldeep Singh. April 25, 2015. The Englert Theater, Iowa City, Iowa. Photo courtesy of David Dunlap. |
From Elizabeth's solo performance mash-up "Oh Christ/Masturbatory Dance" presented in August 2014 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Photo credit: Analia Alegre-Femenias.
As "The Artist" in the live performance and installation portion of the larger project Epiphanarie: Cinematik, a collaboration guided by Michael Pope with MEMO, Gregor Krammer, Leanne Dyer, Maya Urbanowizc, and Cory Neale.
Created and presented February 2013 as part of the E|MERGE interdisciplinary residency at Earthdance, Plainfield, Massachusetts.
Site-specific installation and structured improvisation "There's a hole in the wall (REMIX)."
Performed November 18th, 2012 at the Wesley Foundation/ ps-z/ First United Methodist Church in Iowa City, Iowa. This twenty-minute work was supported by Iowa City Community Supported Art (Season 2), a subscription-based program supporting local artists.
Photo credit Bill Adams.
Still photo from the structured improvisation "There's a hole in the wall" performed in Voices of Action: Women in Performance during August 2012 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Photo credit Alina Antoniou.
A still from the section "Rituals of Beauty," part of work-in-progress objet d'art dancefilm, installation, and live performance presented April 2012 at Public Space One, Iowa City, Iowa.
Photo courtesy of John Engelbrecht.
From an improvisation inspired by Bergman's Introduction to Dance Studies course and students at The University of Iowa: "why do i dance/make dances? why do others dance/make dances? and why does it matter anyway?"
You Come. We'll Show You What We Do. Minneapolis Chapter- curated by Taja Will. Performed two nights in December 2011 at Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Photo credit Jim Smith.
Performing "Birds of Paradise"
Duet choreographed in collaboration with Analia Alegre-Femenias.
Presented January 2011 at Judson Memorial Church, New York City, New York.
Photo credit: Amy Lynne Barr
St.Vitus Dance, an improvisation on exercise/exorcisms.
Performed September 2010 at The Warehouse, Iowa City, Iowa.
Photo credit Analia Alegre-Femenias.
From a solo improvised performance of "Birds of Paradise." Originally conceived, choreographed, and performed as a duet in collaboration with Analia Alegre-Femenias.
Presented informally at the end of a movement improvisation workshop for Omaha Modern Dance Collective at Robin Welch Studio Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, June 2010.
Photo credit Jim Williams.
A moment from "LENS", Bergman's site-specific dance and film installation that foregrounds the action of watching (how we look and how we watch ourselves be looked at), the reactions and constructions that these perspectives provoke, and the fragmentation of memory. Presented as part of Artery 2010, a curated festival of performance art at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Photo documentation by the Artery, courtesy of Fiona MacNeill.
Self-aware "Little Dancer" pose from "I don't think it is necessary to know exactly what I mean," a Foucaltian rumination on the disciplining of the ballet body/mind. Presented as part of Renovate: A Choreographer's Evening at the Ritz Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2010.
Photo credit Jim Smith.
Photo still from the photo-study in collaboration with visual artist Josh Doster. This project relates to an interest in Marcel Duchamp, but also to ongoing research into some things that this pun on Duchamp's 1912 "Nude Descending a Staircase" brings up re: feminism, spectatorship, the body as object/subject, revising the politics of the positioning of females within art (literally and figuratively.)
Joanna Rosenthal's "Watch Me Harder" premiered April 2009 as part of Bergman's MFA Thesis Concert Sadie Hawkins Dance at Space Place Theater, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Photo taken at "Day of the Arts" Holland Center for the Performing Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, June 2009.
Photo credit by Jim Williams.
A moment from the first iteration of Bergman's solo "Pidgin" (then "set" choreography). Produced as part of the Omaha Modern Dance Collective showcase in "Day of the Arts" at the Holland Performing Arts Center, Omaha Nebraska, May 2008.
Photo credit Jim Williams.
Photo credit Jim Williams.