Lida the Artist
- Interdisciplinary Creator for dance, theater, storytelling, spoken word, installation and visual art
- Choreographer: solo, duet and large group performances
- Keynote Performer for Educational Conferences: In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic - offered around the country focusing on education, access, disability and the value of the arts
- Integrated Arts Educator of professional development workshops around the country for educators integrating dance into all academic curricula
- Creative Facilitator guiding individuals and groups through the process of creative expression and communication
- Master Teacher of dance, theater, storytelling and visual art
Artist Biography:
Lida Winfield is an innovative and accomplished dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist and educator. She creates original solo, duet and group work, merging storytelling, dance and visual art. She considers her artistic practice inextricably linked to her role as an educator and is dedicated to using the performing arts to move herself and others forward intellectually, developmentally, socially and spiritually. Lida has taught and performed in a variety of places, including Roger Williams University, Habla: The Center for Language and Culture in Mexico, National Dance Association Conference, Skidmore College and the Bates Dance Festival. In 2011, she toured original duet work with Ellen Smith Ahern and intermedia dance company Double Vision across Europe. Lida studied at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in 2011 earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, VT, with a focus on the transformative power of the expressive arts. In 2016, she was honored with the Rebecca Blunk Fund Award though New England Foundation for the Arts, and in 2017, she received a National Performance Network Creation and Development grant for her new work IMAGINARY with commissioning partners The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow,Middlebury Performing Arts Series, and The Yard.
Lida encourages her students and audience to see themselves, their bodies, and their environment from new angles. She cultivates opportunities and experiences that transform and deeply impact day to day lives. What transpires within the teaching and performing environment is integrated and transferred out into the world, allowing it to live beyond the confines of the classroom or stage. Lida is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dance Program at Middlebury College.
Lida encourages her students and audience to see themselves, their bodies, and their environment from new angles. She cultivates opportunities and experiences that transform and deeply impact day to day lives. What transpires within the teaching and performing environment is integrated and transferred out into the world, allowing it to live beyond the confines of the classroom or stage. Lida is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dance Program at Middlebury College.
Artist CV
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Seven Days: Preview of IMAGINARY at Middlebury Performing Arts Series, March 2020
Review of In Search of Air, Mahaney Center for the Performing Arts, January 2020
Review of IMAGINARY at the Bates Dance Festival 2019
Inside Dance Podcast: Bates Dance Festival 2019 Highlights
Lida speaks on IMAGINARY from the 44:39 minute mark
Lida speaks on IMAGINARY from the 44:39 minute mark
Interview with Praxis Interview Magazine, Yale Radio
RETN (Regional Education Television Network) StoryCraft
Stories in Motion: A Conversation with Lida Winfield
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Stories in Motion: A Conversation with Lida Winfield
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Photo Credit: Jude Chomsky RETN Storycraft
Photo Credit: ©Christine Alicino: ‘Tales of a Different Beauty’
