Liv Bryant
Contact Information
- bryant.1993@osu.edu
Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary Dance
- Interdisciplinary Composition (choreography, film, improvisation, visual arts, and media design)
- Pilates Mat and Reformer (NCPT)
Education
- B.A. Dance with minor in French and Francophone Studies, Kennesaw State University
Liv Bryant (she/her) is a Black, Queer improviser and scholar from Atlanta, Georgia. Her transdisciplinary art unfolds in realms of dance, food, text, visual arts, and technology. Liv holds a B.A. in Dance and French from Kennesaw State University (KSU), and certifications in Pilates and fitness through Balanced Body, NPCP, AFAA, and Zumba. Prior to graduate school, Liv taught various dance, fitness, and Pilates classes in the Metro Atlanta area. She was also a company member with ImmerseATL, staib dance, and Via Uni. She served as the Community Engagement Manager for staib dance's 2023 cultural dance festival, (MC)2, and managed CARC, a center for BIPOC students within the Division of Student Affairs at KSU, where she intertwined arts and social justice education.
Liv has worked in performance with artists including Adam Parson, Andrea Knowlton, Charles O. Anderson, James Graham, George Staib, Lexi Clark-Stilianos, Melecio Estrella, Ronald K. Brown, Sarah Hillmer, and Sean Nguyen-Hilton. Her work has been presented at the American College Dance Association (East and Southeast), Collegium for African Diaspora Dance, Fly on a Wall's Excuse the Arts, Fulton County Arts Week, the High Museum of Art's Dance Lab, Radnocular, Opine Dance Student Film Festival, and with KSU Dance Company.
Liv's work investigates intersections of her identity—balancing grief, joy, and self-discovery. She is currently an MFA fellow at The Ohio State University, where her research explores futurity, memory, recipe, and technology.