vocal & movement performer/improviser/installation artist/
performance artist/sound artist/experimental theater maker
own your body. own your voice.
Luisa has been a performing arts teacher and educator for many years and has experience in teaching adults, teenagers, and children in group or one-on-one sessions around the world in the English and German language. She has taught voice work, including experimental/extended voice techniques, Deep Listening® practices, acting/scene study, audition/performance technique, public speaking, movement, theater improv and music improvisation, dancing, on-camera workshops, and ensemble skills to beginners, aspiring performers, and professionals.
Luisa has been a teacher of vocal improvisation and Deep Listening® (after Pauline Oliveros), as well as a guest lecturer at UCLA (Global Jazz department, through Arturo O'Farrill), Portland State University (Art Practice department, through Becca T. Kauffman (alias Jennifer Vanilla)), and taught as a capstone advisor at The New School, College of Performing Arts. Workshops she has taught include places like Pioneer Works, ATypI Conference (Paris), and Setzkasten Wien (Vienna).
In her early teaching career Luisa was a performing arts teacher (acting, voice/singing, dancing/movement) at Bedford Stuyvesant Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, Stagecoach Theatre Art Schools (Montreal, Canada), the w@lz School in Vienna (Austria), and Masibambane College in Johannesburg (South Africa).
Luisa also developed the program German Through Music and Movement at United Nations International School (German School) in NYC and has additionally been a private voice, acting, speech, public speaking, movement, and German instructor for several years.
In March 2020 Luisa was planned to give a talk and workshop at University of Michigan, "The Arts and Alternative Healing: How Different Approaches to Field Work Can Be a Life Guide to Health (Focusing on the Performing Arts and Family & Systemic Constellations after Bert Hellinger)" in honor of her late artistic partner James Leaf. The event had to be cancelled due to the pandemic.
In 2016 and 2017 Luisa was a part of the Theater Faculty at Yiddish New York, an annual culture festival to celebrate the Yiddish language and Jewish culture (music, theater, dance and visual arts) where she also directed and performed.
Luisa loves working on freeing the voice, body, and mind in a fun and playful environment that still provides clear framework and helps her students grow.
In one-on-one sessions Luisa pays close attention to the individual needs of each student and provides guidance, leading the student towards their desired goals and development of their craft.