Lisa Wymore

Lisa Wymore is a Professor at UC Berkeleys Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. She specializes in choreography, dance and technology, and collaborative innovation, holding an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work consistently explores the intersection of performance, digital media, and human-computer interactivity, and she is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst.

Lisas professional passions center on interdisciplinary collaboration, co-directing the multimedia dance theater company Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts. She explores how technology influences the body and is interested in how generative AI and other tools can augment creative expression. Recently, she has also focused on the role of AI in higher education.

She directs the Z-Lab at UC Berkeley, a technology-driven dance lab for interactive, real-time collaboration between performers in different physical locations, which she established before the widespread use of modern video conferencing.