Michelle Ellsworth with purple hair types at an old-style typewriter with a contraption of wood, string and metal  coming out of it while someone out of the shot points a camera at her.
Professor, Theater and Dance

ATLS 225D

Though not a licensed technologist or carpenter, Michelle Ellsworth nevertheless co-mingles these disciplines with dance to create solutions and/or demonstrations of peculiar geopolitical (and personal) phenomena. The pharmaceutical and political potential of dance interests her, as well as the value of broken and labor-intensive ideas.听听

Among Ellsworth鈥檚 honors are a Doris Duke Artist Award (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), a Doris Duke Impact Award (2015), a NEFA National Dance Project Grant (2014 and 2017), a Creative Capital Fellowship (2013)听and a USA Artists Knight Fellowship in Dance (2012). She has received three National Performance Network Creation Fund Commissions (2004, 2007 and 2016).听听Trailers for her most recent work can be found below.