Elena Rose Light

BIOGRAPHY

Elena Rose Light (they/them) is a choreographer, performer, and writer originally from Southern California (Micqanaqa’n), currently based in Berlin, Germany. Their creative practice is rooted in the potential of antiracist, queer, and non-binary somatics to reorganize systems of governance, thought, and social life. Their performances have been presented by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Giessen TanzArt, Abrons Arts Center, Gibney, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Current Sessions, University Settlement, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among other venues. Recent honors and residencies include the danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz, Lokomotiva Curating in Context mentorship, LiftOFF Residency, LANDING mentorship, Chez Bushwick residency, and Hemispheric Institute EMERGENYC fellowship. They support various New York and international artists on writing projects, and they used to work behind the scenes for Gibney, Abrons Arts Center, and The Movement Research Performance Journal. They currently are part of performance projects with Janine Harrington and Alice Pacheco Nogueira, and they have contributed to works by Christopher Matthews, Ursula Eagly, Bouchra Ouizguen, Tino Sehgal, Asad Raza, Bruno Isakovic, Maya Ciarrocchi and Kris Grey, and The Bureau for the Future of Choreography. Elena received a BA with honors in French and art history from Yale University, where they first became enamored with experimental performance.

** In descriptions for some of my earlier works, I use she/her pronouns to describe myself, as that is how I identified at the time. I have chosen to keep those texts as is despite that I now use they/them pronouns. All of my current and future project descriptions reflect that change (that is, until I find other language to self-describe)!