Larissa Velez-Jackson (LVJ) (they/she) is a NY-based choreographer, movement educator, and creator of their original performance practice called Star Pû Method (f.k.a. Star Crap Method) and is a co-creator of the band Yackez with their husband Jon Velez-Jackson. Called “an adroit physical comedian” who “seems to be questioning entrenched conventions of contemporary performance” in The New York Times, as the artistic director of LVJ Performance Co., LVJ’s blends modalities of movement, sound, storytelling and intergenerational community practice. LVJ was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer and was awarded the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grant to Artists in 2016. They were a Caroline Hearst Choreographic Fellow at Princeton University from ’20-’21 and a choreographic fellow with the AXIS Dance Company in 2024. As an ongoing cancer survivor, LVJ is an advocate of the healing potential of art and body/mind practice.
