Bio

Liana Conyers, M.F.A., is a dance theater maker and educator who builds performance out of memory, identity, and the strange details of everyday life. Based in the mid-Atlantic but rarely still, she layers movement, text, sound, and unexpected turns into work that resists a single, tidy read.

She currently serves as Associate Dean of Academic Life and Performing Arts Faculty at Bard Early College in Washington, DC, where she teaches Black Aesthetics in Mass Media, Performance Art, and Movement Studies. Her work in and out of the classroom has been recognized with grants and fellowships from Bard College and, most notably, a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. In 2022, she traveled to Singapore 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 presented at The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and The Chocolate Factory Theater. Solo works like #ImFxckingFunny and I Invited Oprah dig into identity and who gets to take up space, usually with more humor than the subject matter has any right to allow. She was a New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Fellow and a Live Artery presenter, and has shown work at Emory University, Spelman College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Idaho. She was a 2023–2024 co-presenting artist with Dance Place in Washington, DC, and opened the 2024–2025 season with the premiere of #43 at the DC Dance Festival.