Bio
ELLEN DEUTSCH received a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2008. She studied dance with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, BalletMet Columbus, Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She has performed in the work of choreographers Robert Moses, Cheryl Chaddick, Erika Randall, and Philip Johnston, as well as with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, the Mary Miller Dance Company and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. In the spring of 2007 she performed in the Champaign-Urbana Boneyard Arts Festival as part of Kirstie Simson’s improvisation ensemble. In April 2008 she performed in Ms. Simson’s “Empty House Project,” and in “Precision Not Required,” an improv ensemble coordinated by Kinsey McCartor. Ms. Deutsch is currently enrolled at the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique in Urbana, Illinois, where she is training to become a teacher of the Technique.
In early 2007 Ms. Deutsch served as Assistant Choreographer for the UIUC Department of Theatre’s production of A Chorus Line, and received her first choreography job working for Darkmaze Studios on the feature film Press Start. In April of 2007 she performed her first Geeksdanz work, P.447-450, #1-29 odd, in the Dance Department’s Studiodance II concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Over the summer she worked as Assistant Choreographer for Robert Moses, and presented another Geeksdanz work, Looking For More, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance’s Choreographic Residency. Ms. Deutsch choreographed Crescendo for the High Voltage BFA Thesis Concert Series in April 2008, and is currently working on several Geeksdanz pieces including Odorido, Up to Chance and a new collaboration with renowned storyteller Dan Keding.
Contact Information
ellen@geeksdanz.org *** ellenkdeutsch@gmail.com
