lyra butler-denman
Lyra is a performer, creator, Alexander Technique teacher, and visual artist exploring the quality of the physical experience of our lives. Her work lives at the intersection of the individual body and the social body, and the fractal interplay of the two. Her research is grounded in relationality, living systems, and liberatory practice. She works with bodies as the primary way we encounter the world, record our past, and access choice in the present. Lyra is a steward at FLOCK Dance Center, a collaborator with Our Bodhi Project, a faculty member at the Contemporary Alexander School, and identifies as a heterosexual, white-identified, cisgender woman with a history of chronic pain and illness. She is obsessed with mycelium, anatomy as metaphor, how dams affect rivers over time, and what happens when we remove them.
