Bio

Liana Conyers, M.F.A., is a dance theater maker, educator, and creative human who thrives in spaces where scholarship meets cleverness. Currently based in the mid-Atlantic but always moving, she makes performance work that layers movement, text, sound, and surprise. You never know what’s going to happen next.

She currently serves as Associate Dean of Academic Life and Performing Arts Faculty at Bard DC, where she teaches courses like Black Aesthetics in Mass Media, Performance Art, and Movement Studies. Her academic and creative leadership has been recognized through grants and fellowships from Bard College and, most notably, a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. She traveled to Singapore in 2022 to research arts integration and teach at Pei Hwa, Changkat Changi, LASALLE College of the Arts, the Singapore School of the Arts, and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

Her original works have been seen at venues including The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and The Chocolate Factory Theater. Highlights include her solo shows #ImFxckingFunny, I Invited Oprah, which asks big questions about identity and who gets to take up space. She was a New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Fellow and presenter during Live Artery.

Liana has presented work nationally at Emory University, Spelman College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Idaho, and was a 2023–2024 co-presenting artist with Dance Place in Washington, DC, and kicked off the 2024–2025 season with the premiere of #43 at the DC Dance Festival.