Elizabeth is an aerialist based in Seattle, WA who offers aerial performance and instruction. She specializes in static trapeze, aerial silks, rope, pole, and hoop, and choreography for solo, duo, and ensemble acts. Liza is a unique performing artist with a diverse movement background in physical disciplines including modern dance, Bharatnatayam, Filipino martial arts, Commedia dell'Arte, yoga, gymnastics and stunt training. Since 2009, she has performed primarily with her company ticktock, an unabashedly experimental post-modern aerial circus and dance company whose mission is to bring contemporary dance to a vertical stage. Their first work, "no.1", was acclaimed by Seattle critics as "remarkably different" and "aerial works that transcend the usual collection of feats and tricks" (Josh Windsor, seattledances.blogspot.com). Visit their blog at ticktockdance.com for the scoop on their work and travels.
Originally from Austin, TX, Liza began her modern dance training with Darla Johnson in 1996. She co-founded her first company, REALM danceproject, at 19 years old. She spent ten years performing and studying in New York and L.A. with Deborah Hay, Jacques Heim, and many remarkable artists and colleagues at Dance New Amsterdam, and training on aerial apparatus with Elie Venezky, Elsie and Serenity Smith, Eric Newton, Jukka Juntti, and others.
She settled in Seattle in 2008, where she has worked with Manifold Motion, the Aerialistas, the Atomic Bombshells, Lily Verlaine, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the Moisture Festival, avant cellist Zoe Keating, Mezzo Lunatico for Teatro ZinZanni, Can Can Productions, and was invited to the prestigious Theatre Makers Residency at the Smoke Farm in 2011. She is passionately committed to advancing the art of aerial movement beyond the realm of feats and tricks to a place that demands the fullest awareness of the body in performance. She believes that collaboration is the soul of performance, loves a good artistic or physical challenge, and is always excited to work with other performers and directors.
Liza books nationally and internationally. When she is in town, teaches on staff at Versatile Arts in Greenwood. Contact her for the best in Seattle aerial performance and instruction! Please send inquiries to the artist at lizarose@lizaroseaerial.com.
GQ Magazine
Ford/Lincoln Mercury
New York Fashion Week
Danny Elfmann
Olympic Planning Committee
Golden Bridge Nite Moon
Harrah's Casino
City of Anaheim
Heffner Enterprises
Paramount Films
Seattle Erotic Art Festival
Microsoft
Zipper Theatre
Avalon NYC
PS 122
The Occidental Hysterical Theatre
Judson Church
Movement Research
Galapagos
Diavolo (L.A.)
ACT Theatre (Seattle)
Supperclub (San Francisco)