Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein are NYC-based experimental dance makers and performers whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. Since 2017, they’ve functioned as a cogenerative, circulatory idea machine, whose unconventional performative frameworks are rooted in dance-adjacent physicality but reimagine what choreography can be used to accomplish theatrically.
Recent work includes Deepe Darknesse (Jan, 2024 in New York Live Arts’ Live Artery, and June, 2023 at The Collapsable Hole), 1-800-3592-113592 (March, 2024 at MITU580 with performance collective CHILD, of which Fagan/Engelstein are founding members), Catches No Flies (Jan 2020, Exponential Festival, inaugural Exponential Fellowship), Red Carrots (Jan 2019, Exponential), Warm Line (Mabou Mines, May 2019) and many more short works and experimentations. Upcoming: Spring 2024 premiere at New York Live Arts, fall 2024 guests artists at Barnard/Columbia Dance dept, Deepe Darknesse tour to The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at UMD.
For this work they are joined by collaborator/performer Marianne Rendón. Theater credits: Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (Lincoln Center), Lazarus (NYTW), Who Left This Fork Here (BAC). Film: Patti Smith in Mapplethorpe, Charlie Says, One Day As A Lion, The Kill Room, Summer Solstice. TV: “Imposters”, “In the Dark”
