lisa nevada (b. New México, Chicana, Nuevoméxicana)

lisa advocates for our earth mother through her dance-making, performance, and teaching.  Living most of her life in New México, lisa eventually landed in Brooklyn in 2019 where she thrives as a dance and teaching artist. In Lenapehoking (NYC) and beyond, she facilitates movement experiences and performs dances that engage all peoples in the observation of ecosystems and our human interactions to ignite kinship with mama earth, centered on gratitude. She choreographs for experimental theatre & musicals and is continuously mining her personal creations and offerings. Her embodied research and performance delve into the sonic realms of lullaby and wailing in response to humanity’s active destruction of psyche and home. The soils, plants & trees, waters, animals, and insect beings propel lisa’s work while dance remains the sustaining conduit through which she lives and communicates.    

Community and community-building too is essential to lisa. Teaching dance classes with folks of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds nourishes these community relationships, reminding her of the positive impact human beings may have on one another and the land. lisa is fortunate to teach with the Taylor School at Paul Taylor Dance Company under Carolyn Adams and MAQAHATINE, a Montréal-based gathering space for First Nations and Indigenous artists instigated by Ivanie Aubin-Malo. She is a member of Radical Evolution’s Street Theatre Crew and currently dancing in projects with Tanya Lukin Linklater and Cami’ Leonard.

lisa is the Projects and Partnerships Coordinator and an Ensemble member with Dancing Legacy. founded by sisters Carolyn Adams and Julie Adams Strandberg, Dancing Legacy is a performing and teaching organization committed to enabling individuals to appreciate and participate in the rich dance heritage of the United States. 

she received her MFA in Dance from the University of New Mexico with concentrations in land-based choreography and performance, embodied dance history, and teaching.  in 2015 SHIFT |
DANCE was founded and launched by Jacqueline García, Kelsey Paschich, and lisa nevada.  the trio also instigated SHIFT DANCE | FESTIVAL, one of the only annual dance festivals in Albuquerque, NM to present contemporary, research-based, and experimental dance forms from artists across the nation.

as an independent artist, lisa has performed the choreography of  Kristy Janvier, Jacqueline M. García, Kelsey Paschich, Erika Pujič, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Donna Jewell, Rishauna Zumberg, Rulan Tangen, Danny Grossman, David Parsons, Robert Battle, Donald McKayle, Jose Limón, Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, Bill Evans, Vladimir Conde Reche, Jessica Miller-Tomlinson, among others.  from 2006-2017 lisa was a core member of Ecotone Physical Theatre, a performance ensemble with a mission to mine the veins of improvisation: sonic, kinesthetic, textual, visual.