Liana C. Percoco

dancer, choreographer, musician

<font size="3">I am a dancer, choreographer and musician currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois, USA. I have a BA in Dance and Choreography from Columbia College Chicago and in addition to my artistic performance career, I am also a Licensed Massage Therapist (trained and certified at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy in Colorado) with my own private practice called Momentum Massage Arts.&nbsp; <br><br>As a performer I have most recently been a part of productions with Jen Guglielmi/The Old Town School of Folk Music, The New Yiddish Dance Ensemble, Molly Jaeger/The Performing Space, Red Tape Theatre, Redmoon Theatre, and Shu Shubat and the Radio Hydrangea Drum Theatre.&nbsp;&nbsp; My choreographic works, under the name <span style="font-weight: bold;">coco</span><span style="font-style: italic;">dance</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">group</span>, have been presented by myself and through various venues in Chicago, Colorado, and NYC.&nbsp; I am musically versed as a trained saxophonist and vocalist, with additional music skills in percussion, bass, and banjo.&nbsp;&nbsp; I love to travel, cook vegetarian and bake gluten + dairy free, urban bicycling, hike mountains, cats and dogs (especially my kitty Lulu)!</font><br><font size="3"><br><br>My Artistic Statement: <br> <br> I am a movement-based performing artist influenced by modern, contemporary dance and physical theatre. </font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As a choreographer I am interested in how movement and film can work together to create a more emotionally potent art form. <span style="">&nbsp; </span></span>My goal in choreographing temporal, performance-based work is explore relationships between people and their environments to find an understanding of various expressions of identity, individuality, and community. I am interested making work that tells a story by addressing relationships. I do this by often taking on topics influenced by pop culture, mythological stories, or personal observation. I strive for my work to be accessible and entertaining in an effort to reciprocally connect with the viewing audience by using theatrical tools, video, humor, and social dance forms.<br> <br> In an effort to better connect with the audience, I am currently interested in exploring and making dance- and movement-based films where I can exploit and control the emotional content of the performance to invoke a visceral response. I feel like film is a better way to do this than stage performance by the camera’s ability to frame a moment, perceive time, invoke emotion, and mirror images. I also am interested in combining film projections and dance on stage where the film projection material is a part of the dance itself- dancers and film material interacting in peculiar ways to explore the human psyche and voyeuristic self-obsession that is provoked by the strive for technological and sociological perfection of our society.</font><br><br><br>

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