Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith are New York based feminist artists whose partnership spans the last two decades. Their collaboration deconstructs neoliberal images of female objectification and presents new versions, coming from the potentiality of movement to express inner landscape. Their practice is in continuous dialogue with building a sustainable life as working artists in New York. Works: Zero Station (River-to-River 2023), (gloria rehearsal (excerpt))LIVE (Jane Hotel 2022), gloria rehearsal (excerpt) (Baryshnikov Arts Center 2022), Gloria (Abrons Arts Center 2021, NYLA 2022), Body Comes Apart (New York Live Arts 2019 and 2020, archived in The New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division), Basketball (PS122 and Baryshnikov Arts Center), Rude World (PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater for), Tulip (Roulette 2013, Danspace Project 2012), Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater 2012). Residencies/Awards: 2023/2024 LMCC Extended Life Award, 2021/2022 Artists in Residence Movement Research, 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship Finalists, 2020/2021 Jerome Foundation AIRSpace Residency Abrons Art Center, 2019 FCA Emergency Grant, 2019 BACSpace Residency Baryshnikov Art Center, 2018 Family Residency Mt. Tremper Arts, 2018 Bessie Schonberg Fellows The Yard, 2018 DiP Artists Gibney, Featured in The New York Times “Best Dance of 2017”, 2016 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performance (Molly Lieber), 2016 LMCC Process Space, 2013 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award Nomination Emerging Choreographer, 2013 NYFA Fellow Finalist Award. Recent teaching includes Connecticut College 2015, Sarah Lawrence College 2018, The New School 2019, Pratt 2023, and Sarah Lawrence College 2023. They participated in the Mnemedance Conference in Venice and have an upcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Memory.
