Lisa Engelken

Lisa Engelken is a movement artist, party starter and community builder. She holds a degree in Social Action through the Arts from the Metropolitan State University of Denver and has been a practicing artist for the past 15 years through choreography, community events and teaching dance.  Her choreographic works have been featured Breakin’ Convention, San Francisco International Hip Hop Festival and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. She has established artistic residencies in Colorado, including Backyard Sessions, In the Lab, and Breaking Barriers as well as internationally, with Crossover Project, a cultural exchange residency that premiered in Peru. Her work as a Cultural Ambassador of Hip Hop and her local community activism earned her the Denver Mayor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts. She dedicates her artistry to the act of liberation through dance, both as a community practice and through performance and film storytelling.