Elyse is a dancer, choreographer, producer, studio owner, and dance teacher. She has performed locally, nationally, and internationally for the last two decades, and began choreographing in 2017. Elyse has 35 years of dance training and experience. She has studied extensively in jazz, ballet, Graham, Limón, and Cunningham techniques, West African dance, Afro Cuban dance, and improvisation. Her training also includes study in gymnastics, circus arts, martial arts, Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Feldenkrais, yoga, and Butoh.

Elyse’s most influential teachers include Johanna Cubra, Loren Fletcher, Patricia Dickinson, Celia Dale, Joanne Emmons, Rujeko Dumbutshena, Hristoula Harakas, Pilar Leto, Donna Jewell, and Najla Gilliam.

currently & upcoming