Performance artist Ellen Fisher will be visiting family in Tipp City during the next week.
Currently living and working in New York City, Fisher is a performance
artist whose work combines gestural actions with
visual components such as film, shadow play, objects and puppets.
Fisher’s performance work is informed by ethnographic research in trance dance and rituals of South Asia, particularly Sri Lanka. Since 1981, she has
toured solo work throughout Europe and the U.S., also directing large
ensemble work reinterpreting myths and legends. She continues to
perform her solo work and has started a new series of durational
performances collaborating with artists and musicians. Most recently
performing at “Location One” in New York City. Her film work, including documentaries, has been included in festivals and museum showings throughout the world.
She has received funding through the NEA, Art Matters Inc., Jerome
Foundation, NYFA and the Asian Cultural Council, winning a 2004
Humanities Fellowship and a 2005 Travel Grant. Her film “Dancing for
Gods and Demons” documents authentic dance rituals of the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.
Fisher continues to teach and collaborate with artists on community
intergenerational and intercultural projects, both domestically and internationally.
A Dayton native, Fisher will be visiting her sister Susan Langley and
other family members in the area.
