ELIZA MALECKI
DANCE
Who is She?
Eliza Malecki is a queer Cambridge based dancer, choreographer, administrator, producer, and creative leader from central Massachusetts with a degree in dance from Goucher College. Eliza is known for her quirky and inventive movement aesthetic, human centered creative approach, joy based practices, multidisciplinary collaborations, and unique sense of humor which is woven into everything she creates. Her work pulls from contemporary dance, dance theater, stand up comedy, social dance, and aspects of the human experience including our habits, everyday gestures, pop culture, friendships, and family. There is an element of nostalgia that lives inside Eliza’s work, making her work evocative of warm memories and the joy we carry over from childhood. Her driving question when creating new work is "how can I create serious art that does not need to take itself seriously?"
Olivia Moon/Half Asian Lens Photography
Eliza’s choreographic projects have been funded by the Somerville Cultural Council, Newton Cultural Council, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, the Transformative Development Initiative, the Maine Arts Commission, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Eliza has been a resident artist at Bearnstow (ME), The Iron Factory (PA), The City of Lawrence (MA), and the Studios at Mass MoCA (MA). She is an accomplished producer and has organized events that range from art galleries, dance performances, fashion shows, and music festivals that yield audiences anywhere from 50 to 3,000. She has served as dramaturg for Laila Franklin's BABYBABYBABY and Mary Teuscher's Frequency Coherence.
Her most recent projects have been exploring the intersections of dance and fashion. In collaboration with stylist Mary O’Keefe, she choreographed dance fashion show Traffic Jam (2023) showcasing the designs of local designer WowQing and Lost and Found (2024), which featured entirely secondhand clothing and celebrated the personal histories attached to our clothing and examines the complex emotions wrapped up in the act of getting dressed in the morning.
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Eliza has had the pleasure of performing for Natalie Johnson Dance, Molly Hess Dance Projects, Grant Jacoby and Dancers, Catherine Siller, Luminarium Dance, Audrey Maclean Dance Projects, Human Movement Project, Zoe Dance Company, and Eventual Dance Company. She is also a passionate arts administrator who has served organizations including Green Street Studios, Bearnstow, Masary Studios, Dunamis Boston, and Bloom Arts Strategy.
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Keep up with Eliza via instagram @slinkymalecki