Eliza Larson is an independent dancer, choreographer, artist, writer, teacher, scholar, and administrator based in Northampton, MA. She is one half of the collaborative duo Mountain Empire, and she currently performs with the Telephone Dance Project, Safi Harriott, and Troy Mercier’s Intimacy Project.
She holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College where she was a Gretchen Moran Teaching Fellow in the Five College Dance Department. Eliza graduated cum laude from St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN) with majors in Dance and English before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
Her choreography has been presented around the country, including at the H Street Theater in Washington, DC; Conduit Dance Center and the Pacific NW College of Art in Portland, OR; the OK Hotel Gallery and Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, WA; Earthdance in Plainfield, MA; and the Southern VT Dance Festival in Brattleboro, VT.
She has performed in works by Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ohad Naharin, Colleen Thomas, Angie Hauser, Paul Matteson, Chris Aiken, Cathy Nicoli, Ming Yang, Mark Haim, Deb Wolf, KT Niehoff, Jan Erkert, Adele Myers, and Kristin Hapke among others, and was an original member of the Weaving Dance Company from 2006-2008.
This past summer, Eliza was an inaugural member of CREAP - Creative Engaged Artists of Ponderosa, an artist residency program in Stolzenhagen Germany. Eliza is also a writer and scholar. She is the author and illustrator of Terpsichore’s Deck, a set of 52 choreographic cards to use in dancemaking and performance.
In fall 2013, Eliza presented her research on gender in dance at the Congress on Research in Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars joint conference at UC Riverside.
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