XFR STN Laziza Electrique Dance Company

William and Kathleen Laziza have recently ingested a number of tapes from the 80s and 90s via the XFR STN at the New Museum. These works are now at the Internet Archive.

Short Slices 1985
Short images of videoart and videodance from a Laziza Video Dance and Lumia Project Folio Excerpts


Speak No Evil 1985
Videodance by Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project. Mute dancers explore their space as totems whose flesh is transformed into gruesome colors. Light shines from their mouths as they transcend each other. Negative Imagery and colorized by hand.


Shelter 1984
Solo dance performance by Kathleen Laziza on the beach of Snug Harbor with ambient audio. Performance explores the blur between landscapes.


Somnabulant 1990
Videodance with the Laziza Electrique Dance Company. Somnabulant Four dancers move in a metaphoric environment with kaleidoscopic mix. The dance progresses through variations in the imagery as the kaleidoscope moves between different reflection symmetries. Reality is interspersed with hyper-reality of reflection and dreams to reveal relationships within the sleepwalking state.


Waterbug Waterlily 1990
Waterbug Waterlily with Genevieve Lam and Teresa Adams, the two dancers shift perceptive and focus and explore relationships between a mover and a seer. The mover rows through space with a long staff and the seer peers through space which is modulated by various mediums. The action moves between light and darkness and the camera explores what can be seen as it views the dancers through lenses and rippling water...


Metamorphosis 1990
Metamorphosis is a tribute to American dance icon Loie Fuller. The dancer's immense skirt provides a flexible screen that modulates projected videoart images by the Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project. Then the mood shifts to a freer dance as the dress is shed. In the end we are taken back to the beginning with a star image showing directly on the torso of the dancer. This Videodance features dancer Judy Marriott (Fowler).


Hippoplanet
Hippoplanet is a reflection on how the dancers look in this special effect recording. A fixed mirror in the shot separates the dancers into objects that evolve between Hippos, Planets and Multi-armed creatures that orbit in space. Duet for Peter Honchaurk and Dale Walkonen by Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project. Working with an analog split screen process that explores the other worldliness of heavenly bodies.


Distortion 1982
A playful videodance using mylar by the Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project. Performed at 30 Bond street in Manhattan. Music is by Jacques Dalcroze.


Revival Rock
In Revival Rock, a dancer rocks out and is recorded through various media. Experimental videodance with Kathleen Laziza and Peter Honchaurk. The video environment is water table obscura and floating gel pieces. The video is modulated through stop action and effects from a Fairlight synthesizer.


Gentleman's Call 1985
Dancers Chris Pender and Peter Honchaurk of the Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project square off to compliment, salute and intermingle their ghostly bodies as they pass through each other. Utilizing half silver mirrors the choreography pushes the men to confront and conflict with one another


Piece of Cake 1985
Piece of Cake is a performance piece that features the 30 Bond Street dance studio of the Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project. It is romantically driven, responding to the multiple words of love and affection. This video was recorded with special effect projections and half silver mirror that allows the dancers to to move in and out of themselves and the words of affection.


Sirens of Poseidon 1985
Sirens of Poseidon explores movement of cloth and dancers through ray patterns which are developed from a special effect lighting array called the"swimming pool effect" The Videodance is directed by Kathleen Laziza and presented by members of the Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project


Subject to Change 1997
Videodance by Laziza Electrique Dance Co. This videodance explores redemption and progressive shifts in focus as it relates to the principle of the "ETHEREAL MAN" It utilizes imagery from NASA and other planetary bodies.


Catherdral Roll
Videodance by Laziza Videodance and Lumia Project featuring Teresa Adams and Kathleen Laziza. The work explores the shifting tipsy feeling one gets from meditation and the expansion of thoughts through movement.


















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