Liz Williams
About
A triple threat plus one: Liz Williams is a quadruple threat. She dances, she acts, she sings and most importantly, she thrills the audience flying and floating through the air with her dynamic aerial skills. Blending her years of dance and theater training with her self-taught aerial circus training, she will take you on an emotional journey. Her liquid delicacy is juxtaposed with her dynamic strength. She will surprise and mesmerize you at every turn.
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A triple threat plus one: Liz Williams is a quadruple threat. She dances, she acts, she sings and most importantly, she thrills the audience flying and floating through the air with her dynamic aerial skills. Blending her years of dance and theater training with her self-taught aerial circus training, she will take you on an emotional journey. Her liquid delicacy is juxtaposed with her dynamic strength. She will surprise and mesmerize you at every turn.
A native Floridian, she began her dance training the PCCA Performing Arts high school. Moving to New York, she continued training at the State University of New York Conservatory of Dance, Purchase, NY, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her studies included ballet, contemporary/modern dance, choreography, improvisation, music, singing, acting, yoga, and anatomy. Remaining in New York City following graduation, she danced for various choreographers including David Grenke, Rebecca Hilton and Howard Katz. She also studied ballet intensively with Janet Panetta.
Through a strange and unexpected opportunity, Liz found herself on a 90 ft sailing barge, learning aerial tissue/silks and touring the eastern United States with the Caravan Stage Company. During this time she fell in love with circus arts and, determined to learn more, moved to Berlin, Germany, where she continues to work and develop as an aerial artist.
Since then she has performed in the all the major german variety theatres, countless corporate events and many weird and wonderful shows, including musical and dance theater. Liz brings grace, power, and drama to the stage. Her innovative work integrates the worlds of dance, theater, and media with the world of contemporary circus.
Acts
Chains
A strong image, hard, cold chains, twirling through space with monumental strength, juxtaposed with a small delicate woman who manipulates them with exquisite precision. They are a stormy partner in her elegant dance. This emotionally charged experience will surprise and seduce with quick flashes of explosive dynamism, which will leave your head spinning and hypnotize you with gentle, fluid solace...
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Chains
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A strong image, hard, cold chains, twirling through space with monumental strength, juxtaposed with a small delicate woman who manipulates them with exquisite precision. They are a stormy partner in her elegant dance. This emotionally charged experience will surprise and seduce with quick flashes of explosive dynamism, which will leave your head spinning and hypnotize you with gentle, fluid solace...
Tissue
Transported back to the smokey, jazzy atmosphere of the 1940s, the voice of Nina Simone compels a woman to gracefully climb a red fabric to heaven, only to suddenly drop her into the wild and dynamic rock-n-roll of Muse. Playful and charming, sensual and seductive, ethereal and physical, she moves seamlessly between the two worlds coaxing the audience into ‘Felling Good’!
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Tissue
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Transported back to the smokey, jazzy atmosphere of the 1940s, the voice of Nina Simone compels a woman to gracefully climb a red fabric to heaven, only to suddenly drop her into the wild and dynamic rock-n-roll of Muse. Playful and charming, sensual and seductive, ethereal and physical, she moves seamlessly between the two worlds coaxing the audience into ‘Felling Good’!
Vertical Rope
In a slow and spiraling accent, the rope begins to restrain the performer until she is entwined in a complicated sculptural knot. In the blink of an eye, she has magically freed herself. (Or has the rope released her?) In this poetic metaphor of freed and control, a dramatic story of ecstasy and torture unfolds. A continuous eb and flow of knotting and unknotting, beautiful, ephemeral rope sculptures are created and disappear. A dynamic ending leaves you wondering what freedom is.
Vertical Rope
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In a slow and spiraling accent, the rope begins to restrain the performer until she is entwined in a complicated sculptural knot. In the blink of an eye, she has magically freed herself. (Or has the rope released her?) In this poetic metaphor of freed and control, a dramatic story of ecstasy and torture unfolds. A continuous eb and flow of knotting and unknotting, beautiful, ephemeral rope sculptures are created and disappear. A dynamic ending leaves you wondering what freedom is.
Counterweight
Together with her partner, Howard Katz, Liz creates shows using the aerial apparatus,counterweight rope. Their shows blend aerial acrobatics, dance, theater and live music into one seemless expression.
The two performers are connected by a long rope, through 2 pulleys. Balanced on the precarious and fragile strength of the human hand, without the other, one would fall and yet with the other, both can fly. Employing the wire techniques used in film stunts, the two dance, swing, jump, and fly, sweeping the space with dangerous beauty.
Liz has been performing and working with many renowned companies, including:
Teaching
Liz offers private coaching and group classes at Q Space Berlin:
Contact
Get in touch with me using the contact form below or send me an email!