Our PAST & PRESENT Collaborators
Founder/Director of Liquid Spine: Katie Pustizzi (she, her, hers)
Katie Pustizzi, MFA is a Movement Artist and Filmmaker in the greater Boston area. Her artistic practices are driven by improvisational and experiential movement forms. Katie’s works for performance always contain moments of chance connection, via scored works or completely free-form improvisations.
Katie is deeply interested in international exchange as a form of artistic research and connection. In 2019, she explored Gaga with Batsheva Dance Company in Israel on a professional development grant from Gann Academy. In 2022, she explored Dance and Perception with Senza Confini Di Pelle in Sardinia, Italy through the Aiken Scholarship from Wilson College, her alma mater.
Katie currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Dean College, and Emmanuel College. She frequently shares her improv-focused creation process as an Artist in Residence at various universities and schools across the country. For 10-years, Katie served as the Founder/Artistic Director of Aurora Borealis Dance Company, a mentoring-centered youth ensemble for aspiring movement artists under the age of 20. During these years, she created “State of Flux” a fully-improvisational movement experience, in which the audience chooses music, movement constraints, and dancer pairings during a live-performance. Katie is now pursuing her work as an independent-artist.
Katie Pustizzi, MFA is a Movement Artist and Filmmaker in the greater Boston area. Her artistic practices are driven by improvisational and experiential movement forms. Katie’s works for performance always contain moments of chance connection, via scored works or completely free-form improvisations.
Katie is deeply interested in international exchange as a form of artistic research and connection. In 2019, she explored Gaga with Batsheva Dance Company in Israel on a professional development grant from Gann Academy. In 2022, she explored Dance and Perception with Senza Confini Di Pelle in Sardinia, Italy through the Aiken Scholarship from Wilson College, her alma mater.
Katie currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Dean College, and Emmanuel College. She frequently shares her improv-focused creation process as an Artist in Residence at various universities and schools across the country. For 10-years, Katie served as the Founder/Artistic Director of Aurora Borealis Dance Company, a mentoring-centered youth ensemble for aspiring movement artists under the age of 20. During these years, she created “State of Flux” a fully-improvisational movement experience, in which the audience chooses music, movement constraints, and dancer pairings during a live-performance. Katie is now pursuing her work as an independent-artist.
"Liquid Spine, Augusta" Film - CREATIVE TEAM
Francesca Guccione, Music Artist
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Francesco Cannava, Film Producer
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Helene Vogelsinger, Music Artist
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Lorenzo Panebianco, Videographer
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Katie Pustizzi, Director & Movement Artist
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Global WATER Dances 2023 Movement artists
Emily Bartnicki
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Sarah Maurer
(Photo: Rebbeca Hayes)
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Katrina Conte
(Olivia Moon Photography)
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Rowan Anderson
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