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Spring 2025

Elliot performs with Sara Hook and David Parker in Chicago, IL.

November 2024

Elliot presents a revisited version of Back Quarter Time Turn with Lindsey Jennings, Madeline Mellinger, and Cece Mitchell at the 2024 Cleveland Dance Festival. 

November 2024

Elliot performs Homemade Fish (or Jesus was a mermaid) by Sara Hook at the 2024 Cleveland Dance Festival. More information and tickets available here

November 2024

Lucia Gagliardone's while I was homegrowing premiers at The Tank in NYC, featuring original music by Elliot. More information and tickets available here.

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Spring 2024

Elliot is teaching Advanced Tap at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

March 2024

Elliot performs Jack and Diane (2022) at In the heartland a split-bill performance with Kayt MacMaster at Links Hall in Chicago, IL. More information to come.  

February 2024

Frame of Reference created in collaboration with dramaturg Betsy Brandt premieres as part of February Dance 2024 at the Krannert Center for Performing arts. Watch the live-stream January 31 here

January 2024

Elliot performs an excerpt of Jack and Diane as well as Jenefer Davies's This macaroni and cheese crayon tastes like wax at the W&L Repertory Dance Concert at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets and more info can be found here.

October 20, 2023

"Fresh" is released on all streaming services.

November 2023

June 2023

Elliot travels to NYC to perform Re-accounting, choreographed by Sara Hook and David Parker at Arts on Site. 

June 2023

May 2023

Elliot joins Bates Dance Festival as promotional videographer for the 2023 summer festival in Lewiston, ME.

Elliot and Alfonso (Fonzy) Cervera premier acreage at J e l l o: queer experiment, presented at Elastic Arts in Chicago, IL. 

April 2023

Elliot performs in Love Sucks Vol. 7, choreographed by Rachel Rizzuto and directed by Danny Yeorges.

January 2023

Elliot's score for Jennifer Monson's heap loose,  created in collaboration with Dr. Joy Yang, premiers at Studiodance 2023 and returns at Links Hall in Chicago, IL.

September 2022

Elliot's re-imagining of their 2014 composition "You" will be available to stream and purchase on all platforms. 

Summer 2022

Elliot joins rehearsals for Sarah Marks Mininsohn's "I'll be cuter in May" to be presented at the Seibel Center for Design. 

Summer 2022

Elliot will be in residence with Laura Chiaramonte for the inaugural Flatlands Dance Film Festival workshop and residency. 

Summer 2022

Elliot moves into a full time position at the University of Illinois as administrator and lecturer for the Department of Dance. 

April 15+16, 2022

Elliot will present a work-in-progress showing of Jack and Diane at the Temple Buell Gallery on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work will premiere in a "split Buell" show with a new iteration of Kaitlin Fox's ongoing project, Genny.

April 2022

Elliot's choreography will premiere in Parkland College's production of SpongeBob, The Musical! Directed by Chelsea Collier

Spring 2022

Elliot will teach Intermediate Tap Dance, Introduction to Contemporary Dance, and Teaching Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Spring 2022

Elliot will teach Ballet 1b, Tap 2, Workshop in Choreography, and Dance Laboratory at Millikin University. 

November 2021

Elliot will perform in Sara Hook's Salad Days at the Cleveland Dance Festival 2021 with Rachel Rizzuto. More info here.

October 2021

Elliot is featured on the Jacob's Pillow Blog after their 2021 Fellowship with the School. More information is available here

August 2021

Elliot will begin working on their new project Orbit as a Jacob's Pillow Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow. 

June 2021

Elliot will perform Sara Hook's Salad Days at the Richmond Dance Festival, presented by Dogtown Dance Theatre.

June 2021

Elliot's newest single "Summer" will be released on all streaming services.

May 20-30, 2021

Elliot will present MASCCHAOS, developed as a CoMISSION Artist in Residence at Links Hall in Chicago, IL as part of The Festival of New Works, two weekends of split-bill and evening length works presented virtually on YouTube Live. For more information and tickets, see here.

April 2021

Elliot will present A Three-Way Duet created with the material of Infinite Three-Way Possibility, filmed in the time between the COVID onset and the stay-at-home orders, at

J E L L O playback. For more information see here

Spring 2021

Elliot will be a virtual Guest Artist for the W&L Repertory Dance company. More information about their work with the company is available here. The work Sentinel commissioned by W&L Dance will premiere here, March 25-28, more information here

Spring 2021

Elliot will teach Tap, Jazz, and Modern dance as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Millikin University.

Winter 2020

Elliot's newest single, and first winter song "Winter" will be released

October 16, 2020

Elliot's newest single "Oxygen" will be released.

Fall 2020

Elliot will teach Tap 1 virtually for Millikin University. 

Spring 2020

Elliot's Master's thesis, Infinite Three-Way Possibility premieres at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. March 27,28, 2020 in the Dance Rehearsal Room as part of Studio Dance I Extended. To reserve a seat, click here.

Event indefinitely postponed in efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19

Spring 2020

Elliot choreographs the University of Illinois' production of Cabaret by Fred Ebb and John Kander, directed by Latrelle Bright with music direction by Julie Gunn. For more information see https://krannertcenter.com/events/cabaret

February 8 & 9, 2020

Elliot will appear in Rachel Rizzuto's Love Sucks Vol 5 at the Graduate Dance Center in Urbana, IL. 

February 2020

Elliot will premiere a draft of their new work it looks like the end of time as part of the W&L Repertory Dance Alumni engagement at Ailey Citigroup theatre in New York City. February 2, 2020.

December 2019

Elliot and collaborator Rachel Rizzuto will perform their duet Here we go again as part of "Drafts and Byproducts" an evening of dance presented by Marsh St Louis, curated by Jacob Henss. December 14, 2019. For more information click here.

November 2019

Elliot performs in Jennifer Monson's newest work for students as part of November Dance 2019, November 7-9 at 7:30 in Colwell Playhouse at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. For more information see https://krannertcenter.com/events/november-dance-2019

October 2019

Elliot's new single 'Hunt' premieres along with a new lyric video on October 18, 2019. It is available on all electronic music platforms.

October 2019

Elliot and collaborator Rachel Rizzuto perform their duet Here we go again in a new iteration as part of J e l l o Season 3 Episode 1 at Links Hall in Chicago.

October 2019

Elliot performs in Evvie Allison's newest work, For Your Consideration as part of Studio Dance II Fall 2019, October 3-5, 7:30 in the Studio Theatre at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. For more information see https://krannertcenter.com/events/studiodance-ii-2

Elliot, a queer white person, and Evvie, a slim white woman, stand next to each other in a wide stance. They hold green thera-bands behind their heads, primed for an exercise. They stand on a stage where Evvie's phone number is posted behind them. They wear matching cropped, white shirts and papery blue pants.

Fall 2019

Elliot will be teaching DANC 105: Jazz 1 and DANC 400: Viewing Dance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

July 2019

Elliot attends the Countertechnique One Body One Career intensive in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Elliot accepted one of 55 positions to study for two weeks. This trip was made possible in part by funding from the Mary Elizabeth Halstrom Graduate Travel award from the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois.

For more information see http://www.countertechnique.com/obocmontreal/

June 2019

Elliot participates in Dance at Illinois' first annual Choreographic Platform with visiting artists David Parker and THE BANG GROUP and faculty Sara Hook. For more information see https://danceatillinois.weebly.com/choreographic-platform-2019.html

May 2019

Elliot received the Vannie L Sheiry memorial award for Outstanding Performance by a Graduate Student, for their work in Sara Hook's Janes, Charlie Maybee's The Promise of Stormy Weather, and their own Here we go again. They were honored at the DAI End of the Year Banquet. (Pictured here with co-awardee Danzel Thomspon-Stout and faculty Sara Hook. Photo by Lindsey Jennings.)

Elliot, a queer white person, in a glittery black dress, with their hair pulled back, glasses, and a bright red lip. Sara, a white woman in a vintage, powder blue tuxedo and blue spectacles. Danzel, a Black man in a black tuxedo with a gold bowtie. Elliot and Danzel hold certificates of an award they share. Sara has her arms around them both and all three are smiling

April 2019

Back Quarter Time Turn, a trio created in collaboration with Angel Anderson, Mary Kate Ford, and Lindsey Jennings, premiered April 18-20 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts as part of Studio Dance II 2019. For more info and tickets go to https://krannertcenter.com/events/studiodance-ii-1 

March 2019

Here we go again was selected for the ACDA Central Gala conference!

March 2019

Elliot and collaborator Rachel Rizzuto premier their duet Here we go again at the ACDA central conference March 12-16 2019 at Missouri State University.

March 2019

Elliot performs in Studio Dance 1, Program A and B, at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Elliot will perform in Charlie Maybee-Ferrell's The Promise of Stormy Weather and Sara Hook's Janes.

November 8-10, 2018

Elliot premiers Circum- as part of NOGO Arts inaugural event, Untether, at Triskelion Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY. 

July 17, 2018

Elliot presents Circumas part of ROGUE, a student led informal showing at the American Dance Festival Summer Dance Intensive. Featuring work by Moss Heart, Lilly Mello, and Mads Klemm.

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