Ariel Lembeck

Ariel Lembeck is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Through highly physical dance performances, public interruptions that challenge social etiquette, and interactive installations she creates vibrant material-rich environments to propose the power of the collective over the supremacy of the individual. Lembeck’s work has been presented by WaxWorks, JudsonChurch (STUFFED), The Jack Crystal Theater, The Footlight (MerdetheShow), Ruth Page Center for the Arts (Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival), The Floor on Atlantic, The Wild Project Theater, The Tank NYC, and Kestrels. She has been an artist in residence at The Floor on Atlantic (2019), The Egg (2020), The Field Center (COLLAGE 2022) and MotiVE Brooklyn (2022-2023). She was featured on the Unsequenced Podcast for her interactive installation work titled “brilliant you” presented at Triskelion Arts, BK NY (2021). She most recently premiered her first evening-length solo dancework “TRYHARD” at Kestrels in Gowanus in October 2024.

Since graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she has worked with artists Meredith Monk, Stefanie Nelson, Douglas Dunn, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Eva Dean, Mari Meade Montoya, Zena Bibler, Rami Be’er (Gaaton Israel), Anat Vaadia (Tel Aviv – Yasmeen Godder’s “Storm End Come”), Nattie Torgdon + Hollis Bartlett, Jessica Gaynor, Elisabeth Motley, Joanna Kotze, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Barnett Cohen and Nicole Mannarino. Lembeck currently collaborates with a team of interdisciplinary artists who create together as a canary torsi.