Lisa Parra is an artist and performer. Her education includes a BA in Dance and Psychology from UC Irvine, MA in Dance/Movement Therapy from UCLA and is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) from the Laban Center in New York. She is a 2024 MAP Fund grantee for her current project family reunion side two. The project has also been supported by New Dance Alliance WORKSessions month-long residency at Chashama in March of 2023. In addition, she was a 2017-2019 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence funded by Mertz Gilmore. Her work has been presented by New Dance Alliance, Movement Research, and Center for Performance Research. She has received further commissions and residencies from Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY; Alkantara in Lisbon and Center for Arts and Architecture in Guimaraes, Portugal and Bilbao Eszena in Bilbao, Spain. Lisa was a Movement Research Exchange Artist with UCLA World Arts and Culture/Dance department in which she taught Advance Composition, Advance Improvisation and Faculty Lab course in the Spring of 2020. Her collaborations with other artists include Portuguese media artist Daniel Pinheiro for an ongoing research project LAND that focuses on embodied presence via the internet for both developing and performing work from remote locations; and as a performer she has collaborated with Emma Rose Brown and Karen Bernard.
family reunion side two family reunion side two is an interdisciplinary solo performance based on audiotape recordings of Lisa Parra’s mother’s family reunion in 1999. With this work, Parra contemplates how prosody and memory resonate in both movement and vocalization.
“Thank you thank you and thank you to everyone who made this residency (Black Artist Space to Create) possible. These past two weeks have been a blessing! Not only have I been able to deepen my own personal/artistic practices, I was given the space to connect with people that I love! I was given space to reflect on love, and to prepare for what this next year (2021) will bring! Shout out to New Dance Alliance, Modern Accord Depot and Angie Pittman for the time, the space, and opportunity! I am forever grateful! It felt like a good meal, with dessert!”
– Johnnie Cruise Mercer
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