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Lynn Neuman : February 2026
Full Scope February invited Lynn Neuman from Artichoke Dance Company. Lynn shared her journey in ecoarts activism, performance interventions, community based creative practices, and use of arts to enact change. The discussion included a question-and-answer segment where attendees asked Lynn about the topics covered.
To learn more about becoming an Artichoke Ambassador, please check out the website: https://www.artichokedance.org/artichoke-ambassadors
To learn about public art opportunities in New York City, please visit https://municipalartist.org/profiles/profiles/public-artists-in-residence/ as recommended by Lynn Neuman.
Meet Our Speaker!
Meet our Full Scope speaker, Lynn Neuman!
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WasteSide Story is a collaborative project with photographer Robin Michals that visually depicts the life f plastics from cradle to grave through trashion (fashion from trash) photography. Here Lynn Neuman is pictured jumping in front of a mountain of plastic debris, dressed in an outfit made from plastic bags.
Lynn Neuman, Artistic Director of Artichoke Dance Company based in New York City, is one of the nation’s leading eco-artists working in performance and installation. She devises ecologically themed performances and constructs programs that embody principles of environmental justice, craft visions of co-created, resilient futures, and involve individuals and communities in creative activism. Recent commissions include Riverside Park Conservancy (2026) reflecting on climate refugees, Texas A&M (2023) exploring water equity in the southwestern US, Waterfront Alliance (2021) illuminating sea level rise, The Soraya (2019) connecting Angelenos with Los Angeles River revitalization, and National Gallery of Art (2017) for Voices of the Ocean. Lynn is an Association of Performing Arts Professional’s
Leadership Fellow, NEFA National Dance Project finalist, and the only choreographer to receive a Marion International Fellowship for the Arts. She has been featured in Dance Magazine, the Los Angeles and New York Times, on NPR and Citizens Climate Radio, and in the Climate Check and Arts, Work, Life podcasts.
Artichoke Dance Company is known for innovative and engaging performances paired with environmental activism, education, community building and civic engagement. Previous large-scale projects have addressed plastic pollution mitigation on Coney Island, single use plastic bags in New York, river revitalization in Los Angeles, and water use and rights in the desert southwest. Incorporated as a non-profit in 1999, Artichoke Dance has held twenty-two New York Seasons and toured nationally and internationally.
Visit Artichoke Dance’s website for more information:
https://www.artichokedance.org/
(Artist Headshot and Bio, Courtesy of Speaker)
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Immersive Performance Tours take audiences on a journey through an environmental justice area, sharing the area’s history, community stories and site performances. Four dancers of Artichoke Dance Company perform along the Gowanus Canal, one of the nation’s most polluted waterways.
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Visioning Bodies is a folk dance for a resilient future originally commissioned by The Soraya Performing Arts Center that has been performed at various locations across the United States. Here six dancers form a tight knit circle, supporting each other with their arms as they lift their focus skyward.
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Liberate the Earth explores our relationship with and impact on the earth and advocates for the rights of mother nature. Five dancers dressed in costumes made from plastic bags form a line as they gaze into the distance.
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The Perils of Plastics Project was a collaboration with environmental organizations that repurposed materials collected from a beach clean-up into an installation simulating the Great Pacific Trash Patch that appeared in the 2024 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island, animated by dancers moving through the installation, bringing a message of plastic pollution in the ocean, winning the Judge’s Choice Award.