Welcome our new Board Members!
Join us in welcoming new Board Members, Tara Lorenzen and Stacy Spence! Both former dancers with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, we are thrilled to enter this new chapter of the company with their support. Learn more about them below.
Tara Lorenzen is originally from the hills of West Virginia. Upon graduation from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, she became a member of the Repertory Understudy Group under Merce Cunningham where she created an original role in EyeSpace as well as reconstructing earlier works such as Rune and Summerspace. She went on to join the Stephen Petronio Dance Company from 2008-2011. She has worked with Kimberly Bartosik, Christine Elmo, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Anna Sperber, Jodi Melnick, Beth Gill (Electric Midwife Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2011), and Maria Hassabi (Plastic Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2016). Since 2011, Tara has performed and taught master classes for the Trisha Brown Dance Company all over the world. Recently she assisted in the reconstruction of Trisha’s O zlozony/O composite (originally created for the Paris Opera Ballet) at the Pennsylvania Ballet and taught Set and Reset/Reset at La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, France. Tara is currently a Visiting Associate Professor and Director of Dance at Bard College, where she has taught all levels of technique classes, created new course content in multidisciplinary practices, and coordinated partnerships between American Dance Festival, Gibney Dance, and Villa Albertine. She is a Cunningham Technique certified teacher and continues to investigate the role of John Cage’s works in all artistic practices.
Stacy Matthew Spence is a New York City based choreographer, teacher, and dancer. Stacy’s choreography has been commissioned by The High Line in collaboration with visual artist Ronny Quevedo, Danspace Project, The New School, Ishmael Houston-Jones’s Platform 2012: Parallels for Danspace Project, Tisch School of the Arts and London Contemporary Dance School. Stacy has been honored to perform in co/motion directed by Margaret Peak as part of Jason Moranʼs Whitney Biennial: Bleed, Deborah Hayʼs Blues as part of Ralph Lemonʼs One Fine Day at The Museum of Modern Art NY and Joanna Kotze’s BIG BEATS.
Stacy had the pleasure of dancing with The Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1997-2006, was Education Director 2018-2020 and continues collaborating with the company through teaching and re-staging Trisha's work. He has taught nationally and internationally at institutions such as The New School, Juilliard, Barnard College, Tisch School of the Arts, Manhattan Marymount College, London Contemporary Dance School, Centre National de Danse Contemporaine and Movement Research.
Stacy’s work has been supported through Gibney Dance in Process (DiP) Resident Artist 2022-23, Movement Research Artist Parent Residency; Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, Workspace Artist-in-Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council NY; Manhattan Community Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY; New York Live Arts Studio Series Residency; Artist Residency at Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France.
