Lori Yuill
(Performer/ Choreographer and Set Design) Lori Yuill has been engaged in making dances for the past two decades. Her work includes ongoing research into the in-between spaces: the space between narrative and abstraction, choreography and improvisation, and between performance and rehearsal. Lori is drawn to site specific work because of the opportunity to learn from and about different places like the Flower Garden Banks off the shore of Galveston, or Finca Tres Robles a farm located in Houston's East End where she made “Green Zebras: Moringa Madness'' In addition to making dances for specific spaces, Lori has made several evening length works for the stage including “The Remembering Happens” created during a residency at Rice University. Her choreographic interests in collaboration, research and process infuse her teaching practice as well. She works with a variety of organizations to bring dance to curious movers and thinkers. At Houston Met Dance, Lori serves as the Director of Curriculum helping to cultivate a conversation about how dance is shared across age groups and across genres. Additionally, with Hope Stone she has the great pleasure to guide the residents at Village of River Oaks Memory Care Center through bimonthly dance classes, and through Performing Arts Houston Lori facilitates a creative writing and dance program for middle school students. She has worked as a facilitator for Artist Inc., a program that helps artists develop their business practices, and for Emc Arts, a program that helps nonprofits develop their adaptive capacities. Photo Credit: Tati Vice
Artist Statement
I make dances because I understand the world and myself through movement. Dance acts as a filter through which I view and process the world. My choreography experiments with the relationship between anatomy and space. Sometimes I take a close up look at one bone and how it can be moved through space. In other work I let the space direct the movement of my body. My work is often playful and I invite the audience to participate as a way of understanding from within. The dances I make are part of ongoing research into the in-between spaces: the space between narrative and abstraction, between choreography and improvisation, and between performance and rehearsal.
Find and Follow
NMLY.dance
After many years in the studio together Nicole McNeil and Lori Yuill are working collaboratively to meld their creative capacities. NMLY.dance is a convergence of their intersectional interests and individual studio practices. Intentionally they entered this collaborative venture with a desire to deepen their collaborative practice, calling on multiple voices to shape the direction of the creative act. Their goal is to entangle different artistic practices to reveal new ones and rediscover old ones. NMLY.dance projects explore multimedia performance using dance, projections, and sound design always with the goal of melding different perspectives in order to build new worlds for audiences to inhabit with them. Photo Credit: Lynn Lane