Elizabeth Waterhouse
| Elizabeth Waterhouse | |
|---|---|
| Born | Albany, NY |
| 🏳️ Nationality | US |
| 🏫 Education | Harvard University, Ohio State University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
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Elizabeth Waterhouse is an American contemporary dancer and scientist born and raised in Upstate New York. She graduated from Harvard University in 2002 with a Bachelor's degree in physics.[1] She continued to studying at Ohio State University where she completed her Master in 2004 with a degree in dance. Waterhouse became a founding member of the Forsythe Dance Company and performed internationally in venues like the Brooklyn Academy of Music[2][3][4], Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden[5], Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels[6] and Tate Modern in London[7]. Her performances have been aired on national television in France and Germany.[8] Waterhouse is known for her interest in reconciling art and science.[9]
Professional Career[edit]
Dance[edit]
Waterhouse started her career as a professional dancer in Boston, Massachusetts with the Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble. She performed Marcus Schulkind's solo Courting the Hippogriff.[10] The same year she moved to Germany to join Ballet Frankfurt. In 2005 Waterhouse became a founding member of The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt am Main, where she performed until 2013.[11] With the Forsythe Company she performed "Three atmospheric studies"[2], "Decreation"[4] and "I don't believe in outer space"[3] at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, "Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time" at the Tate Modern in London.[7] In 2006 her performance of "One Flat Thing, reproduced" was aired on the French-German television network ARTE.[8]
Science[edit]
Because of her experience with "One Flat Thing, reproduced" she started working on Ohio State University's online education project "Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced" in 2009.[12][13]. Successively she became a researcher at Motion Bank's "Dance engaging science" program.[14]
Motion Together[edit]
Motion Together is a research program at the Bielefeld University. Based on Waterhouse's publication "Doing Duo – a case study of entrainment in William Forsythe’s choreography “Duo"” (2014)[15] Motion Together develops an understanding of entrainment using eye-tracking, motion capture to investigate how spectators watch and perceive contemporary dance choreography, in particular, William Forsythe's choreography "Duo". In return Waterhouse looking at "Duo" through entrainment from the performer, side gives an example of partnering: two dancers engaging in a danced conversation without external cues or pulse, which gives insight to nonverbal communication and social interaction among the performers.[16] Since 2015 Waterhouse is director of Motion Together[17]
HOOD[edit]
Together with former Forsythe Company members, she founded the artist collective HOOD at the center for choreography PACT-Zollverein Essen.[18]
Notable performances[edit]
| Year | Title | Description | Venue | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Courting the Hippogriff | Solo choreographed by Marcus Schulkind.[10] Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble | Rieman Center for the Performing Arts | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 2006 | One Flat Thing, reproduced | a work by The Forsythe Company, directed by William Forsythe, recorded by Thierry De May for Arte TV[8] | Bockenheimer Depot | Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2007 | Three atmospheric studies | a work by The Forsythe Company, directed by William Forsythe | Recorded at Brooklyn Academy of Music[2] | Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| 2007 | Human Writes | Performance / Installation by The Forsythe Company[6] | Halles de Schaerbeek, Kunstenfestivaldesart | Brussels, Belgium |
| 2008 | Yes, we can't | A work by The Forsythe Company, directed by William Forsythe[5] | Festspielhaus Hellerau | Dresden, Germany |
| 2009 | Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time | Performance / Installation by The Forsythe Company[7] | Tate Modern | London, UK |
| 2009 | Decreation | A work by William Forsythe, performed by The Forsythe Company | Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music[4] | Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| 2011 | I don't believe in outer space | A work by The Forsythe Company, directed by William Forsythe | Recorded at Brooklyn Academy of Music[3] | Brooklyn, NY, USA |
Selected publications[edit]
- 2010 — Waterhouse, E. Dancing Amidst The Forsythe Company: Space Enactment and Living Repertory. In G. Brandstetter & B. Wiens (Eds.), Theater Ohne Fluchtpunkt (pp. 153–181). Berlin: Alexander Verlag.
- 2013 — 77 choreographic proposals: Documentation of the evolving mobilization of the term choreography. International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media[19]
- 2014 — Doing Duo – a case study of entrainment in William Forsythe’s choreography “Duo.”[15]
- 2014 — Durning, J., & Waterhouse, E. Out-Score/In-Score Workshop: Teaching Agency in Contemporary Choreographic Practices. Contact Quarterly Journal, 39:1, 24–28.
- 2018 — The Creation of William Forsythe's "Duo".[20]
- 2022 — Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo[21]
Typography[edit]
Waterhouse has created a number typographic projects.[22] She is co-creator of the Albert Einstein handwriting font,[23][24] and a historic reenactment of the letter-exchange between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein.[25]
References[edit]
- ↑ Cash, Debra (2007-05-01). "Jete Propelled". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Three atmospheric studies [videorecording] / a work by The Forsythe Company ; directed by William Forsythe ; presented by BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music". The New York Public Library | Shared Collection Catalog. Retrieved 2019-02-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "I don't believe in outer space / staging by William Forsythe ; performed by The Forsythe Company ; presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music". The New York Public Library | Shared Collection Catalog. Retrieved 2019-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Decreation / a work by William Forsythe ; [performed by] The Forsythe Company ; presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music". The New York Public Library | Shared Collection Catalog. Retrieved 2019-02-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Forsythe Company im Festspielhaus Hellerau mit neuer Version des 2008 in Dresden aufgeführten Stückes "Yes, we can't"". DNN - Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Human Writes". www.kfda.be. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Tate Live: The Forsythe Company". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "One flat thing, reproduced | Numeridanse tv". www.numeridanse.tv. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "Once a physicist: Elizabeth Waterhouse". Physics World. 29 (12): 45. 2016. Bibcode:2016PhyW...29l..45.. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/29/12/61. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Harvard troupe moves with beauty and energy - The Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ↑ "Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft - - Research - Conferences / Symposia - Communications". www.inst.uni-giessen.de. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ↑ Sulcas, Roslyn (2009-03-24). "William Forsythe and Ohio State Draw Movement's Connections Online". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "SynchronousObjects » INTRODUCTION: The Dance". Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "Dance Engaging Science | MOTION BANK". motionbank.org. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Bläsing, Bettina E.; Watts, Riley; Waterhouse, Elizabeth (2014). "Doing Duo – a Case Study of Entrainment in William Forsythe's Choreography "Duo"". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8: 812. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00812. ISSN 1662-5161. PMC 4204438. PMID 25374522.
- ↑ "Motion Together". www.uni-bielefeld.de. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ↑ Bläsing, Bettina; Puttke, Martin; Schack, Thomas (2018-07-18). The Neurocognition of Dance: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills. Routledge. ISBN 9781317536840. Search this book on
- ↑ "HOOD - PACT Zollverein". www.pact-zollverein.de. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ Durning, Jeanine; Waterhouse, Elizabeth (2013-01-01). "77 choreographic proposals: Documentation of the evolving mobilization of the term choreography". International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 9 (1): 44–51. doi:10.1386/padm.9.1.44_1. ISSN 1479-4713. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Creation of William Forsythe's "Duo"". Elizabeth Neumann Waterhouse. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Freie Universität Berlin, Colloquium of Prof. Dr. G. Brandstetter. 2018-01-23.
- ↑ Waterhouse, Elizabeth (May 2022). Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo. Columbia University Press. p. 342. ISBN 9783837655889. Search this book on
- ↑ Dean, James (2015-06-05). "You too can type in font of wisdom". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ Sloat, Sarah (2015-06-03). "Want Your Writing to Look Like Einstein's? Computers Mimic Handwriting of the Famous". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ Feltman, Rachel (2015-05-07). "There's now a font based on Albert Einstein's handwriting". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Kickstarter Gold: Pen Pals—Einstein & Freud Handwriting Font". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
External links[edit]
- Official website at University of Bern
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