LISA FAGAN
LISA FAGAN is a choreographer, performer, and theater maker based in NYC whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. She is the director/choreographer and a practicing member of the experimental performance company CHILD. Recent: HILMA (choreographer) at Tony award winning theater The Wilma. 2023 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist in Residence with company CHILD. Deepe Darknesse at New York Live Arts’ Live Artery 2023 with collaborator Lena Engelstein. Fagan’s work has been presented in NYC by: New Georges, Prelude, Immediate Medium, Mercury Store, Radiohole, LifeWorld, Target Margin, HERE Arts, Bard College (Choreographer: Promenade, Dir. Morgan Green), The Exponential Festival (2019/20 Exponential Fellow), Ars Nova, New York Live Arts (2017/18 Fresh Tracks Artist), Movement Research, Gibney, Roulette, The 92nd Street Y, and others. She collaborates with many artists across disciplines supporting their shows choreographically and as movement director. On-screen choreography credits include the TV pilot THESE DAYS, premiering at Sundance 2021, and various music videos. @lfdanceproblems
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, received full-page review in The New York Times by theater critic Brian Seibert, 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, recipients of inaugural Exponential Fellowship), Red Carrots (Jan 2019, Exponential), and many more short works and experimentations. Their work has been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center (2023 BAC Open), NYSCA Individual artists grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mercury Store, and others. Along with their work as a collaborative duo, credits include: Fagan: No President by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (dancer), experimental opera HILMA at Tony Award Winning theater The Wilma (choreographer), Open Throat at Little Island NYC, by Henry Hoke, dir. Caitlin Ryan O’Connell (choreographer), THESE DAYS short indie series premiering at Sundance 2021 (choreographer), Promenade by Maria Irene Fornes, dir. Morgan Green (choreographer).
Along with their work as a collaborative duo, credits include: No President by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (dancer), experimental opera HILMA at Tony Award Winning theater The Wilma (choreographer), Open Throat at Little Island NYC, by Henry Hoke, dir. Caitlin Ryan O’Connell (choreographer), THESE DAYS short indie series premiering at Sundance 2021 (choreographer), Promenade by Maria Irene Fornes, dir. Morgan Green (choreographer).
