Liv Lorent

Choreography - Winner 2005

The Arts Foundation Choreography Award was awarded to Liv in 2005 and accompanies the Jerwood Choreography Award she received in 2001, rewarding her commitment and professional standing within her art form.

Liv has had extensive training as a dancer and choreographer, at the Arts Educational School, Tring, finishing with a BA (Hons) Dance Theatre degree from the Laban Centre, London. She was an associate Artist at the Place Theatre in London, before relocating to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1996, to become resident Choreographer at Dance City.

She established balletLORENT in 1993, and has since won many awards for her work. Her choreography has a history of great individuality and diversity of dancers, which sometimes manifests itself with cross generational work including the much acclaimed Strange Glitter with a cast aged from 8yrs to 70yrs. The success of this work which toured nationally and was featured as part of British Dance edition 2000 led to a commission from Singapore Dance Theatre and the British Council and the creation of a full length intergenerational work with a cast of thirty - Into the Mouth of the Orchid. Liv was also invited to create Life Stories on a cast aged from 4yrs to 75yrs for the opening of The Patrick Centre, Birmingham through DanceXchange. 2008 brought a new work MaEternal in which the company perfromed alongside a cast of pregnant women from the community.

For more information on Liv, balletLORENT and the work she has been producing over the last 18 years please visit www.balletlorent.com