[vc_row gap=”35″ css=”.vc_custom_1490985874744{padding-top: 3% !important;padding-bottom: 3% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2577″ img_size=”full”][ultimate_heading main_heading=”Teaching Artist” main_heading_color=”#43454c” sub_heading_color=”#43454c” alignment=”left” spacer=”line_only” line_height=”1″ line_color=”#43454c” main_heading_margin=”margin-bottom:3%;” spacer_margin=”margin-top:9%;margin-bottom:9%;”]Since 2005[/ultimate_heading][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Erica Mott is a former researcher and international development worker turned actor, choreographer and director. As a performance maker and cultural organizer, she utilizes body-based forms (movement/song/realtime action with objects) in immersive environments and extensive cross-disciplinary collaborations to transform discarded materials and histories and disregarded spaces and stories. Through her immersive yet intimate performance installations, she captures and heightens the magic and mystery of the mundane and invites communities to re-view and re-envision shared spaces and practices.
Her original work for the stage has been featured across the world at such venues as CRICOTEKA Museum and The Audio Art Festival (Krakow, Poland), Rawabet Theater (Cairo, Egypt), International Theatre Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Festival Cervantino (Guanajuato, Mexico), Steirischer Herbst (Graz, Austria), Queer Arts Festival (Rostock, Germany), NES Artist (Skagastrond, Iceland) and City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Erica is a recipient of several awards, including Amnesty International’s Patrick Stewart Human Rights Fellowship, The Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Djerassi Residency, Banff Center Specialized Residency Programme, Ragdale Foundation Residency, NES Artist, The 3Arts Award and the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Fellowship. She is a former core troupe member of the performance art troupe, La Pocha Nostra.
Erica has been named one of the “Top 5 Game-Changing Dance Makers in 2015″ and Newcity Stage has honored Erica Mott Productions with the distinction of “Players 2016: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago.”
Currently she is a part-time lecturer in the Department of Performance at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1497901568207{margin-top: 3% !important;margin-bottom: 3% !important;}”]Bio as of 2017[/vc_column_text][ultimate_heading main_heading=”Education” main_heading_color=”#43454c” alignment=”left” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:24px;tablet:24px;tablet_portrait:24px;mobile_landscape:22px;mobile:20px;” main_heading_line_height=”desktop:34px;tablet:34px;tablet_portrait:34px;mobile_landscape:32px;mobile:30px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;” main_heading_margin=”margin-bottom:3%;”][/ultimate_heading][vc_column_text]Masters in Theatre Performance, University of Exeter, UK[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
