Elizabeth Ward is a performance designer who creates live-form visual landscapes with installation, sculpture, large-scale spectacle, and performance, working in theater, aerial ballet, and opera. The experiential current of live performance critically informs her work, exploring the convergence of geography, gender, animal/human symbiosis, and geoscience, investigating how developments in material culture influenced modern society and concepts of social identity.
ARTIST CV
INTERNATIONAL:
Beijing Music Festival - Beijing
English National Opera - London
Beijing National 'Bird's Nest' Stadium - Eiko Ishioka's International Design Team - Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 'One World, One Dream Opening Ceremonies’
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet
London's West End - The Playhouse Theater
Ferrari Museum Abu Dhabi 'Grand Opening Ceremony' Filmmaster Events & Simmetrico Italia, in association with Bonsai Ninja Animation - Milan/Dubai/Berlin Suzhou Kunqu Opera with Polo Arts Beijing - Suzhou
London International Film Festival - 'Bert & Arnie's Guide to Friendship'
European Capital of Culture Festival - Vilnius, Lithuania
Royal Shakespeare Company - Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Gonzalo Munoz - The Flying Machine Company and Cirque de Soleil
The Flying Machine Company - Santiago, Chile
ROMEARCA - Berlin Handel House Museum, London
UNITED STATES:
Adaptive Studios, LA
Artclass - ESPN Creative Projects, NYC
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - Lincoln Center Festival, NYC
Carnegie Hall, NYC
Public Theater, NYC
BAM - Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC
New York City Opera, NYC
Geffen Playhouse, LA
SITI Company, NYC
Signature Theater, NYC Theater for a New Audience, NYC
New York Chocolate Show, NYC
Spoleto Festival, Charleston
Handel & Haydn Society, Boston
FILM/TV:
NBC Live Broadcast - Beijing National 'Bird's Nest' Stadium - Eiko Ishioka’s International Design Team for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - ‘One World, One Dream Opening Ceremonies’ Artclass - ESPN Creative Works - 'ALITA/Scott Van Pelt for SVP'
Adaptive Studios - 'Forever Alone' ROMEARCA - ‘Ghosts & Flowers: The Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia’ Music Video
PBS - Great Performances - 'Bill Irwin: Clown Prince'
Sundance Film Festival - 'Dark Matter'
London International Film Festival - 'Bert & Arnie's Guide to Friendship'