Variations for LRS
Choreography: Lauren Slone
Performer: Lauren Slone
Music: excerpts from Violin Sonata #2 by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber | performed by Alice Robbins, Mark Kroll, Carol Lieberman
For a decade, I’ve listened to this 1681 devotional masterpiece on repeat, captivated by its unorthodox improvisatory style and searching for the right person to bring my vision of it to life. This year, returning to my familial roots and earliest artistic home [St. Pete] like a prodigal daughter, I realized I am the performer I’ve been waiting for.
Lauren Slone
Lauren Slone is an internationally recognized arts leader with cross-sectoral experience as a consultant, educator, arts administrator, dancer, choreographer, writer, and nearly two decades in programmatic design, strategy, and grantmaking in arts philanthropy. To date, she has helped distribute more than $50 million in direct support to artists throughout the world.
She earned an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Florida State University School of Dance where she was the first Mellon Foundation Arts Administration Fellow at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) and a Ballet Pedagogy Fellow. She is the proud co-founder and co-producer of the BEACON performance series and loves teaching technique classes at Hillsborough College and Academy of Ballet Arts.
She’s received creative residencies for her work through PS122, the Lillian E. Smith Center, The Palladium Theater, MANCC as Embedded Writer-in-Residence, and Jacobs Pillow Lab with choreographer Joanna Kotze. Her work has been presented at Wassaic Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, and Wexner Center for the Arts, among others.
She has lectured at CalArts, Parsons’ School of Fashion/Design Sustainability, Sarah Lawrence College, American University, The Ohio State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Brown University, among others. Her research has been published and presented through DanceNYC, PEAK Grantmaking, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies’ Leadership Institute, Gibney Dance, and Americans for the Arts. She has also served as co-Chair of Grantmakers in the Arts Support for Individual Artist Committee and several other international groups dedicated to improving labor conditions for artists.
