Elyse is a dancer, choreographer, producer, studio owner, and dance teacher. She has performed professionally for the last 17 years, and began choreographing in 2017. She creates work independently, and has a collaborative production company with Madrone Matysiak called RigorMortis. Elyse has 34 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. Her most influential teachers include Johanna Cubra, Loren Fletcher, Patricia Dickinson, Celia Dale, Joanne Emmons, Rujeko Dumbutshena, Rosangela Silvestre, Hristoula Harakas, Pilar Leto, Bea O’Neall, and Donna Jewell.