Shannon
Litzenberger
Shannon Litzenberger is an award-winning choreographer, director and embodiment facilitator. She creates sensory-rich multi-disciplinary performance experiences that animate our relationship to land, community and the forgotten wisdom of the body. Her imaginative collaborations connect art forms and communities, centring participatory experiences in artistic processes. Throughout her 25+ year career, her work has been presented across Canada and the US, in collaboration with many of Canada’s leading artists across disciplines.
Images by Jef Mallory and Aria Evans.
Focusing on recovering our capacity to feel and sense ourselves, each other and the world around us, Shannon translates her embodied, creative practices toward aims of leadership development, organizational culture development and systems change. Her practices centre aims of collective wellbeing, reciprocity, care and an enhanced capacity for co-creation across differences.
Her research is asking: How do we reconnect to a sense of aliveness? How do we imagine and co-create new worlds that support collective thriving? She is demonstrating the ways that aesthetic and embodied practices are capable of worldmaking by bringing awareness to conditioned tendencies, shifting behaviours through practice, inviting new rituals, codes of conduct, and ways of relating in support of creating a healthier, more interconnected and resilient society.
