KIRSTAN CLIFFORD
After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009, she collaborated with and performed for artists such as Tameca Jones, Julie Atlas Muz, Laurel Atwell, Gerda König, Jean-Claude Lessou, Katie Mae Hebert, Trisha Brown, Julie Natanielsz, Emily P. Dunne, The Color Condition, Karen Nelson, and luciana achugar.
Kirstan founded and curated STUDIO SERIES SHOW from 2016-2019, a salon-style performance event that presented the work of Austin dance artists through a critique-in-process model.
In 2020, Kirstan received her MSc Dance Science from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, England. Her thesis work detailed the lived experience of dance-based practitioners working in palliative and end of life care.
Her work is inspired by the nervous system’s registration of nonverbal communication, mind-body integration, and the study of embodiment practices within social and community spaces. Currently, she is working as a freelance researcher for professional dance artists and choreographers.
She gave birth to her first child in July 2021.
choreography:Kirstan Clifford
(STUDIO SERIES SHOW, OCTOBER 2017)
film by: kirstan clifford
(TX, USA, JULY 2008)
MAY 30, 31, JUNE 1, 2019 730pm JUNE 2, 2019 5pm
Works by:
Alexa Capareda, Emily Rushing, Lauren Tietz, Rae Fredricks
Moderated by Michaeli Brunk
Set by Kimmy & Dustin Leuders
MAY 18-20, 2018 530pm & 8pm
Works by:
Alyson Dolan, Bridget Morris, Michaeli Brunk
Moderated by Kirstan Clifford
***a WEST happening (May 19, 20)
OCTOBER 20-21, 2017 8pm
Works by:
Katie Mae Hebert, Kirstan Clifford, Meghan McCoy-Alchus
Design by Richard Sniff
STUDIO SERIES SHOW archive