Bio

NOW!:

Victoria has completed her two-year artist residency at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange and is now serving as an advisor to the new AIRs/Artist in Residents. She is a proud, new member on the board of New Dance Alliance. Victoria has many curation and emceeing projects this summer, fall and winter (see upcoming). Additionally, she is offering many performance and spirituality workshops (a new endeavor) in addition to Intuitive Readings. (Please see the spirituality page for more information). Victoria is using the summer and fall to continue development on her two most recent solo shows developing as part of her BAX residency. My Journey of Decay is a memoir piece about all her dental work and her mother's death. GIRL MEAT is about Countess Elizabeth Bathory who is allegedly the most prolific female serial killer in history. (Believe it or not, they're both funny shows). Susan Herr of DapperQ.com and Ryan Kipp are making a short documentary about Victoria's new Butch Burlesque Workshop. Additionally, Ryan and Victoria are collaborating on a film about The Countess.

THE BEGINNING:

Victoria first took the stage at age seven performing magic at birthday parties for her contemporaries and she's never looked back. She studied theatre at Otterbein College where in her senior year as part of the honors program, she created a 60-minute solo show about the artist Camille Claudel (directed by Sara Laudonia). In 1997, she arrived to New York City off the boat from Ohio. Victoria initially pursued more traditional theatre, but found herself drawn to the avant-garde. In 1999, after being inspired by Peggy Shaw's Menopausal Gentleman, she wrote her second solo show, stalk(her), and to her surprise found an urge to include dance. This took her on a journey of exploring and studying physical theatre. Soon after, she received an Artward Bound residency through The Field in 2003 where she met Karen Bernard. Upon returning to NYC from the residency, Karen Bernard of NDA offered opportunities and encouraged her to continue on this path. Since then, Victoria now regularly performs her work around New York City and beyond.

THE JOURNEY:

Libertore conceived and performed The Should Dream, created it in collaboration with Ryan Migge. It was performed to sold-out houses as part of terraNOVA Collective's solo Festival at PS122. The Should Dream has also been performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Provincetown , MA and The West End Theatre. She has written and performed stalk(her) in collaboration with Kimberly I. Kefgen (BAX, Dixon Place , Independent Studios, Judy’s Chelsea, Six Figures Theatre Company). She also created an evening of Vaudeville, V-Ville, in collaboration with Tony nominee Rebecca Feldman (Artists of Tomorrow Series).

TRAVEL AND NEW FRONTIERS:

Libertore appeared in Montreal's Festival of Edgy Women, in Hysteria: A Festival of Women in Toronto and headlined in the Philly Fringe Festival. Libertore performed at Cirque du Soleil's opening party for Corteo. She appeared in Dance Theatre Etcetera's Angels, Accordians and Art as part of an interactive site-specific performance created for the Ron Mueck exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She was chosen as one of 12 artists in New York City to perform in Naked & Twisted. She hosted the 2008 Performance Mix presented by New Dance Alliance as her alter ego, a technicolor version of the great Liza M. Victoria curates and produces a wild and diverse variety show: Crones, Ducks & Babes.

ALL THE GIN JOINTS:

Libertore's performed her original performance art throughout New York City and beyond with/at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Aletha Adsitt & Co, Alexandra Beller, BAX, The Bitter Poet, Bowery Poetry Club, CB’s 313 Gallery, CEC Philadelphia, Collective: Unconscious, Coney Island, Dixon Place, Galapagos, Groove Mama Ink., HERE, HOWL! Festival, Joe’s Pub, Joyce SoHo, Knitting Factory, Low, Makor, The Marquee, Miss Saturn, Meow Mix, Mo Pitkin's, Nervous Cabaret, New Dance Alliance, Palace of Wonders (DC), Pinchbottom Burlesque, Pleasure Palace/Boston, Siberia, PS122, RiFiFi, The Slipper Room, Standup NY, Red Hook Festival, The Stable, Theatre for the New City, Uncle Moe's, Julian Velard, The Women’s Project, Wow Café and The Zipper Factory.

TEACHING/WRITING/IMPROVISING:

Victoria has taught soldout performance and burlesque workshops at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dance New Amsterdam, Groove Mama Ink, and Studios 353, taught workshops on archetypal energy at theatre collectives, worked with Six Figures Theatre Company teaching workshops in the Six Viewpoints technique, has taught improv, one-on-one coaching of performance work and hula hooping. Her plays include A Man with a Limp (Dopplegäng Festival), How Crazy Joe Met His Wife (produced and published by Estrogenius) and Monster and Lola (Humana Festival Finalist). She was a founding member of the improv troupe Devil’s Dancebelt (2003-2007). Their performance highlights include Caroline's on Broadway, Gotham City Improv, Siberia, Irish Rep, The Producer’s Club, Rose’s Turn, and Variety Underground.

TRAINING/GRANTS:

Victoria has a BFA in Theatre from Otterbein College . Her studies also include Balinese mask with Per Brahe, Butoh with Tanya Calamoneri, Clown with Kendall Cornell, Grotowski with Raïna von Waldenburg, Viewpoints with Stephen Wangh and site-specific performance with Martha Bowers. She is the recipient of a 2005 Space Grant from Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She has been invited twice by New Dance Alliance to attend artist residencies at Earth Dance and White Oak.

Victoria lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she does intuitive readings. She also loves presents.