“Laura’s consistent creative involvement in the process and invention of new work is unparalleled.”
ARTIST STATEMENT
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LROD’s daily practice crosses the seen and unseen borders we each carry.
LROD creates co-creative environments charged with warmth and electric ease.
The vision re-imagines present futures where artists are embraced for their creative potential and multi-hyphenate identities.
The mission unfolds strategic choreographic designs serving as a framework to navigate a wide array of performance, education, and technology sectors.
These practices prioritize inter-generational/galatic access, justice, and agility as grounding principles.
At the core, LROD says “Love is a borderland.”
LROD customizes from a long line of family seamstresses, rebels, and re-imaginaries reflecting a border-life woven into every part.
Border Crosser
= Deep indigo and muted ochre
Sacred Heart
= Warm crimson and soft ivory
COSMOS of Flame
= Fiery amber and celestial navy
VEILED Curandere
= Misty lavender and sage green
SHAPESHIFTING PUNKRock
= Electric teal and charcoal black
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Laura “LROD” █████████, has been sighted and unseen as LROD LROD, LROD, Lrod ********, pronounced “ELROD”, and La Fractura. EL PASO, TX under the green sun and the shadows of steel on sand, Laura came to be. Born from the crossroads of Rarámuri, Spain, Germany & Africa merged to form Laura’s embedded power-lines.
Born from the mother night, LROD wonders as a daydreamer, cathedral of techne-light, and weaver of presence. Massachusetts now calls us home. Anarchist to any “mold” or “form.” A mask maker and costume stitcher for custom performance needs drawn from a long-line of border seamstresses, Chicane, and curanderas. A sacred heart in artistic practice, signaling embodiment.
Speaking from the heart of co-creativity and collaboration: a former core artist with Norah Zuniga Shaw (NZShaw), Livable Futures, a former core member of La Pocha Nostra with Guillermo Gómez Peña and Balitronica and a co-founder of Taco Reparations Brigade with Paloma Martinez Cruz, Rubén Castille Herrera (RIP), and Bryan Ortiz.
MORE PEOPLE: La Pocha Nostra & Guillermo Gomez Pena, Livable Futures, Tonya Lockyer, Alessandro Sousa Pereira & BDT, Sara Shelton Mann, Roya Carreras, Passion Fruit Dance Company, Jay Stull & Keenan Taylor Oliphant, Amy O'Neal, Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Gerard & Kelly, Aysha Upchurch, Jeffery L. Page, House of Dove, Levi Ryan, CLS, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora, Macha Colón, Sonia Baidya, Alejandra Rosa, Callie Chapman, Andy Russ, Christopher Rivas, Annie Gonzalez, Amber Ortega, Erica Wilson, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Candace Zachary, Meg Fox, Toni Dove, Jazelynn Goudy, Wideman Davis Dance, Pat Graney, Wade Madsen, Deb Wolf.
MEDIUMS: technology, movement, film, design, performance art, intermedia, masks/costumes, dramaturgy, ghostwriting, eso-terics, magical sur-realism, and lighting design
SITES: Boost Dance Festival, Converge Dance Festival, Men in Dance, Cervantino Film Festival, Dance @30FPS, International Dance Festival, Base,
the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, Joyce Theater, Artlab, NYU/Steinhardt, Broadway Performance Hall, Farkas Hall, Harvard Dance Center, Paramount Theater, Wexner Center of the Arts, MetaLab/Berlin, MOCO, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Jacob's Pillow, and International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO)
NOTES: Awards include, New England Foundation of the Arts Recipient (NEFA), LiveArts Ireland Residency, Harvard's Provostial Fund Awardee, Michael M. Bromley Fund for Innovations in Dance (2021-2024), Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Grant (MMI), NALAC Leadership Fellow, and Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Awards 2024-2020
ATLAS notes: LROD embodies a synthesis of grounded patience, careful observation, and radical tenderness, layered with a protective aura, transparency, and strength. Designing within this framework calls for a creative portfolio that reflects these qualities through interdisciplinary expression. The work would emphasize embodied pedagogy, inviting engagement that is both introspective and outwardly resilient. It would integrate movement, narrative, and technology to foster environments that support optimization and creative exploration.
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