Photo: Lisa on running legs
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Lisa Bufano is an interdisciplinary artist and a dancer who often uses prosthetics in her work. In the past 3 years, Lisa has performed for audiences in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Canada and in the United States including The Kennedy Theater in Washington D.C., The Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Judson Memorial Church in NYC. She is a Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art recipient and has an ongoing collaboration with the University of Linz. In May 2007, Lisa Bufano moved from the East coast to work and perform with Axis Dance Company in Oakland, CA.

Lisa was a competitive gymnast as a kid and a go-go dancer in college. After a bacteria infection led to the amputation of both her feet and fingers when she was 21, Lisa pursued animation and sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In Fall, 2006, Boston presenter Jeremy Alliger introduced her to NY choreographer Heidi Latsky and she began new work in modern dance.

"I initially felt compelled to perform because being in front of people terrified me. Dance allows me to explore the huge range of what it is to be in a body- to experience being athletic, vulnerable, empowered, sensual, repulsive, monstrous, human, animal- and ultimately find some comfort with that."