laura elaine ellis

laura elaine ellis performs and tours with Dimensions Dance Theater and Flyaway Productions and has danced in works for choreographers Emily Keeler, Donald McKayle, Garth Fagan, Deborah Vaughan, Joan Lazarus, Anne Bluethenthal, Kim Epifano, and Robert Moses. She is co-founder of the award-winning Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now. She has served 30 years on faculty for the Theatre & Dance Dept., Cal State University, East Bay and for the Arts Dept at the Athenian School. In addition to her work on SFArtsED / SFBATCO’s productions of Ragtime (2017), West Side Story (2019), and SFBATCO’s Sign My Name to Freedom -work-in-progress (2021), Ms. Ellis has staged productions for Open Opera, Festival Opera, George Coates Performance Group, Douglass Morrison Theater, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Shotgun Players. In 2022, she shared an artistic residency and collaboration with Tiersa Nureyev, at MSP/ SFArtsED Gallery on the premiere of a site-specific work, ruminations. [re] visited., featuring Dimensions Dance Theater. ruminations. [re] visited was also presented at Brava Theater as part of SFBATCO’s New Roots Festival (2002).