Damaris Webb: Bicoastal Performer, Teaching Artist, and Theater Maker
About
I am a performer, theater maker and master teaching artist, based bicoastally in New York City and Portland, Oregon.
My work lives in the intersection of contemplative dance, improvisational performance art, and contemporary theater. It is often seen in non-traditional performance venues such as late night parties, warehouses and church basements, it is sometimes epic and may involve zombies or superheroes. I am drawn to the seemingly infinite, and yet simultaneously non existent, separation between me and you.
In creative process I am informed both by the practices and forms I was immersed in during my formal training, including Viewpoints Practice, Psychophysical Acting, Composition/Moment Work, Developmental Technique and Contemplative Dance Improvisation, as well as the methods I have adopted and adapted in the streets of New York, such as Burlesque, Street Theater and Large Scale Spectacle.
I am a founding member of CDP/NYC which has evolved from my close and continued work with Barbara Dilley and the investigations of mindfulness practices in performance making. In addition to my work as a Master Teaching Artist with Enact, I offer public workshops for the performer throughout the year in the art of deep play and composition. Learn more about me.
MFA Theater Contemporary Performance, Naropa University
BFA The Experimental Theater Wing, New York University