Elizabeth Clark is a Hudson Valley-based composer, performance artist, multi-instrumentalist (harp, piano, voice), experimental theater-maker, healing artist, and humanitarian. She composed and developed "Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera" as an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe Artists Colony. Her large-scale interdisciplinary opera is a recreation of lucid dreams and spiritual visions through music, movement, storytelling, and light experiments, and has been performed by a cast of more than 35 Hudson Valley performance artists, musicians, and dancers. They also held a site-specific performance inside of the earth in The Widow Jane Mine—a vast, amphitheater-like old cement mine in Rosendale, New York.
Elizabeth’s work combines interdisciplinary art forms with contemplative practices, weaving together elements of ethereal future-folk music, sacred and world music, experimental theater, movement/dance, ecstatic poetry, mythology, and the healing arts. Her work is focused on creating meaningful and deeply transformational community experiences through live performance art.
A composer with the Hudson Valley nonprofit Sagearts, her musical healing work with elderly Holocaust survivors is featured in the documentary PBS special, We Remember: Songs of Survivors. She records original music and performs with her ensemble, Mamalama, throughout the Northeast. A longtime student of spiritual elder Grandfather Albert (Mi’qmac/New Brunswick), she also leads traditional healing ceremonies.