Liz Chestang
Poem and Dance
Presenting:
"Stripped on Saturday"
On participating in Vagina Festival 2008:
My piece “Stripped on Saturday” is a poem and a dance piece combined about self image. The poem is about how every Sunday I try and start over with a cycle of all these imperfections I have and one day I come to this realization that those imperfections will never be stripped. The poem is about me coming to this epiphany at the end of the week when I am actually the most like my self. Moreover, my piece captures the sentiment many women feel that they have to be perfect and strip away all their flaws that make them unique. My piece demonstrates that we as women can be unique and quirky and happy with ourselves at the end of the day.
About Liz Chestang:
Liz Marie Chestang is a native of Cleveland Ohio, where during her adolescent years she trained at Cleveland City Dance in the Cleveland Chamber Ballet and attended summer programs at The Rock School of Dance Education and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Upon graduating from Shaker Heights High School, she went on to pursue a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. During her college years, Ms. Chestang has had the opportunity to study at Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, International Association of Blacks in Dance and American College Dance Festival. Furthermore, she has performed the works of several fabulous artists such as Earl Mosley, Clifford Williams, Stephanie Batten Bland, Travis Gatling and Chanon Judson. Also in college, Ms. Chestang became a life long member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Ms. Chestang will graduate from Ohio University in June 2009 and currently studies at The Ailey School, the official training school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, as a student in the Independent Study Program.
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