Laurel Atwell has been performing and building performance-driven work since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work and collaborations have been presented at MoMA PS1, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place; as part of Sundays on Broadway, Performa ’11, CATCH, Offerings; have shown in Los Angeles, CA, Marfa, TX, Minneapolis, MN, and New Haven, CT. She has worked with luciana achugar, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Milka Djordjevich (for which Atwell received a 2018 Bessie nomination for her performance in ANTHEM), Beth Gill, Ursula Eagly, Barnett Cohen, Camilla Carper, Nikima Jagudajev, Melanie Maar, and Melinda Ring, among others. Atwell participated in the 2022 Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon, Portugal, beginning corresponding live and video projects that attempt to decipher the new perceptions of reality, desire, and mortality thanks to the internet as well as merge the necessities and benefits of the organized group (towards policy, agenda, legible accomplishment) with the disorganized group (towards intuition, pleasure, the self maintained). She is a qi gong facilitator and Reiki practitioner. @affirmation.machine laurel.atwell@gmail.com
- Artist in Residence
- 2016 Artist in Residence
- Faculty
- 2016 Artist-In-Residence
- Critical Correspondence Contributor
- Physical Inquiry and Somatic Practices Faculty
- Publishing
- Movement Research at the Judson Church Performance Series
- MR@Judson Artist
