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| Videokinesis Imagery Artist: William Laziza |
Weight of a Cloud Dancer Pictured: Judy Marriott Fowler |
Empirical Lights Dancer Pictured: Kathleen Laziza |
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| The Lighthouse.mov(1230kb) Dancers: Gabe Bobek & Judy Marriott Fowler |
1/7th - DNA with Light Dancers: Gabe Bobek & Judy Marriott Fowler |
Joy To The World.mov (911kb) Artist: William Laziza |
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Kathleen Laziza Interdisciplinary Artist Background Born in Pittsburgh PA Grew up in Houston, Texas 1963 - 1973 Currently living in Downtown Brooklyn Artistic Director of Promote Art Works, Inc. Mother of two youngsters ages 14 & 8 Initially trained as a calligrapher, Kathleen began a life long pursuit of art and design that has transformed from fine arts to performing arts to intermedia arts that use technology and theater. In Austin Texas by 1973 she became the apprentice of Professor William Lester, a fine abstract painter at the University of Texas. During those years Ms. Laziza learned the nuts and bolts of visual art production. In 1977, Kathleen meet and began collaborating with videomaker William McClelland Laziza. They traveled world wide in 1979. It was during that time that she switched her artistic pursuit from painting to movement theater and media. The artistic partnership she created with William Laziza is still successful today. She is the Artistic Director of Promote Art Works Inc. (PAWI) which is a community arts organization dedicated to hybrid media and perservation. This organization operates as an art incubator. PAWI supports a resident art company, and sponsors the Spontaneous Combustion (SpCo) series for emerging artists. SpCo has recently been transformed into a public television program on Time Warner and Cablevision channels. She is a certified producer for Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT). PAWI also advocates for many youth initiatives in the arts. Ms. Laziza is a producer for the Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project (LVLP), and choreographer for Laziza Electrique Dance Co. - which is an multiple art company that maintains a repertory of 10 works that explore themes of kinetic art through theater. LVLP specialize in low tech special effects and intermedia. In 1996 her work with LVLP was published by MIT PRESS through the International Society of Arts, Science and Technology. The leading article in Leonardo Magazine, Volume 29 Number 3, is entitled "Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project: The Intersection of Dance Technology and Performance Art. |
