Elizabeth Buchheister
Choreographer, Dancer, Producer
Bucheister’s movement style is structured and yet organic, blending linearity with waves and purposeful stillness through her Horton-heavy vocabulary and grippingly human approach. Her choreography reveals distinctive unity between music, movement, and expression with its fearlessness to meld moments of work and struggle with a playful element of surprise. She guides the audience through a narrative with clarity and an emotionally fixed tone; however, just when you think you understand the piece’s trajectory, she surprises you with a humanlike unpredictability.
- Lillianna Miller, Writer for Pointe Magazine
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Projects
The Study Series - Elizabeth is the founding director of The Study Series, a monthly showing of choreographic exploration held at Arts on Site. The mission of this initiative is to provide choreographers with an opportunity to showcase choreographic studies based on a selected theme in a low-pressure environment. Our goal is to inspire artists to continue developing and expanding their creative process, compositional skills, and choreographic craft without the need to present a finished work. We also aim to create an accessible space for dance artists to network, collaborate with new choreographers, and offer audiences a new perspective on the art of dancemaking.
Beauty is the Home of Hope presented the work of sixteen choreographers from NYC, Connecticut, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. These six different performances unified a group of diverse artists through the theme of valuing the power that beauty and creativity have to continue inspiring people towards hope in restoring ourselves and the world around us. This event was co-sponsored by Arthouse2B and Saint Luke Artist's Guild.
About
Elizabeth Buchheister is a choreographer, producer, dancer, and teacher based in NYC. Elizabeth is from Emmitsburg, Maryland and began performing in community musical theater at a young age. She later studied dance at various schools including The City Ballet School. Elizabeth graduated from The Ailey School’s certificate program, completed Ailey Extension’s Horton pedagogy certification, and was a scholarship student at The Taylor School. Elizabeth has performed works by Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Ronald K Brown, Robert Battle, Amy Hall Garner, and JA Collective.
Elizabeth teaches at 92NY Harkness School of Dance and demonstrates for Horton classes at 92NY and Steps on Broadway. She has choreographed original works for Ballet Hartford, Mercersburg Academy, The City Ballet School, and the new opera "Gracchus." Elizabeth’s independent choreography has also been seen at showcases in NYC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Elizabeth is also a freelance performer and producer, works as an Assistant Stage Manager at Ailey Citigroup Theater, and is the Technical Director at Arts on Site.
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