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Claire Elizabeth Barratt

 

Interdisciplinary Arts – Performance / Pedagogy – dance, music, theater, visual arts

artist moniker – CillaVee

 

 

65 Coleman Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801

cillaveelifearts @ gmail.com

(828) 505 0950

 

 

METHODOLOGIES

 

LIVING ART: Body Tuning, Creative Response, Motion Sculpture, The Sound of Movement

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

Since 2002 Founder and Director of Cilla Vee Life Arts, Bronx NY / Asheville NC

Since 2020 Founder and Director of the Center for Connection + Collaboration, Asheville NC

1991-1999 Co Founding Director of Circle Modern Dance, Knoxville TN

 

 

AWARDS

 

2020 National Endowment for the Arts / New York State Council on the Arts – Enliven NYC through Chashama

2006/2008 MetLife – Creative Connections through Meet The Composer

2004 JP Morgan Chase / Bronx Council on the Arts – Arts in Education through the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2014-2016 MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute of Creative Research, accredited by Plymouth University, UK

2004-2005 Apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, NYC

Fulltime professional training:

1986-1989 London Studio Centre of Performing Arts, London, UK

1985-1986 Laban Centre for Movement and Dance at Goldsmith’s College, London, UK

 

 

POSITIONS

 

2024 International Sacred Dance Guild Legacy Project approved facilitator

2005-2008 Performance Curator for Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx NY

1999-2002 Company Member for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, NC

1997-1999 Resident Choreographer for Knoxville Opera Company, TN

1990-92 / 2000-01 Cast Member of Unto These Hills outdoor drama – Cherokee Reservation, NC

 

 

 

RECENT SIGNIFICANT WORK

 

 

2024  From The Soul: Dreamcatcher workshop intensive and The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher, sculpture and performance installation with members of the International Sacred Dance Guild – Remic Rapids, Ottawa, ON Canada

2024  Renaissance Noise Restoration, experimental Baroque opera duo – North East USA tour

2024  The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher, sculpture and performance installation – {Re}Happening event by Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Lake Eden NC

2024  Big Banana Bong with Elka Bong group, collaborative sound art album

2023  RAW MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body multimedia collaborative public performance installation and environmental Call-To-Action – Chashama at NY Port Authority Bus Terminal, NYC

2023  Weird Yoga Tour with Elka Bong group, performance and experimental sound art – South East USA tour

2022  RAW MATERIAL: Living Art – Motion Sculpture: Psychosomatic Transformations Butoh workshop intensive – Stoa Center for Body Arts and Studies, Sirince Turkey                        

2022  Smoke & Mirrors multi-media collaboration – {Re}Happening event by Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Lake Eden NC

2021  Public Service Announcement – Radio Art commission from Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center / Asheville FM Radio / Make Noise.

2021  VIGIL: Angel of Light performance – Asheville Art Museum, NC

2020  VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead, 30 day residency, performance, installation – Chashama at Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY

2019  Playtime For Barbie performance and RAW MATERIAL: Living Art workshop – Sesalac Butoh Retreat, Serbia

2019  Performer for Xfest Cyprus, collaborative improvisation festival – Petreon Sculpture Park, Cyprus

2019  Performance: Art, Action, Life teaching residency – Northern Arizona University Honors College, Flagstaff, AZ

2018  Hasta Cero/Until Zero performance, installation collaboration – Nett Nett Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico

2018  Submersion LA / Submersion Oakland performance, installation collaboration – Coaxial Arts Foundation Los Angeles and Pro Arts Gallery Oakland, CA

2018  The Sound of Movement workshop for music students – San Francisco Waldorf High School, CA

2018  Living Art workshop for dance and theater students – CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA

2018  Fe performance, installation – Birmingham Museum of Art, AL

2017  Guest speaker and workshop facilitator for Nothing Fest – Mariam Darwood School of Visual Arts and Design, Lahore, Pakistan

 

 

 

 


 

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