Whether working with dance and performance, collage, or jewelry, Laurie Berg creates performances that feel like living collages. Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, Roulette Intermedium, Times Square Arts, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, Beach Sessions Dance Series, and Movement Research among others. Berg was a 2020-2021 Movement Research Parent Artist Resident supported by The Sustainable Arts Foundation, a 2016-17 LMCC Workspace Artist-In-Residence, the 2016 recipient of the Tom Murrin Performance Award, a 2013 New York Live Arts Studio Series Artist and a 2010 Movement Research Artist-In-Residence. Berg was co-organizer of the performance platform AUNTS (2009-2021), and is now working on an AUNTS archive. The first research/collection events for the archive took place in June 2023 as part of LMCC’s R2R festival. Berg is the director of the nonprofit organization Before Your Eyes, Inc. She is also mom to Zelda (b. 2019).
A round mirror with a rusted metal frame sits in a yard among lots of antique furniture and odd objects. In the mirror is Laurie's reflection: a woman with curly brown hair and a yellow shirt, half smiling and looking at the camera. Photo courtesy of the artist.
ID: A round mirror with a rusted metal frame sits in a yard among lots of antique furniture and odd objects. In the mirror is Laurie's reflection: a woman with curly brown hair and a yellow shirt, half smiling and looking at the camera. Photo courtesy of the artist.