Projects and Events - Past and Upcoming
Samantha Figgins
Samantha Figgins, dancer with the Alvin Ailey company, is a recipient of the Guggenheim Works and Process residency. She is in the process of choreographing work featuring all deaf and hard-of-hearing dancers; it was performed at Bethany Arts Community in May 2022 and will be shown throughout 2023. Elisa is among one of the four dancers in the project.
Photo by Alice Chacon, Winter 2022
Anna Gichan
Recipient of the Gallim Moving Women Residency and the Dance/NYC Disability.Dance.Artistry Residency, Anna Gichan is producing a new dance film to be released in Summer 2022 - Elisa will be dancing for Anna. Elisa and Anna often collaborate together, two athletic dancers who are in love with vigorous and acrobatic movement, and who both experience the world with hearing loss.
View the work in progress here.
View Anna’s website here.
Jen Rose
Move My Blood, a dance theater performance reimagining the Greek mythos CIRCE
Performed in Kefalonia, Greece, at the Drogarati Cave in August, 2021
Created and choreographed by Jennifer Rose, Produced by Jennifer Rose and Maximilia Lukacs, Costumes by Leith Clark and Bora Aksu, Music by Evanthia Kagadis
Dancers: Eva Lukacs, Morgaine DeLeonardis, Kristen DeLillo, Alexandrina Fleming, Anna Gichan, Elisa Hernandez, Maija Knapp, Isaies Santamaria Perez
Morgaine DeLeonardis
A still from Don’t Undermine Me
Performed in October 2019 at Gallim Dance as part of the CreateArt residency, as well as in the lobby of the Loew’s Theater NJ as part of Your Move Dance Festival
Pictured: Kimiko Tanabe and Elisa Hernandez
Dance Film Screening
Coming soon!
A night presenting different dance films from an array of movement artists, ending with a dance party :)
November 2021
