Elliot has presented their choreographic work all through the Midwest and East Coast including at the Ailey Citigroup Theater and Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan, NY, the Center for Performance Research and Triskelion Center for the Arts in Brookyln, NY, and the Boston Center for the Arts. Most recently, they have shared solos with artists from Illinois in various settings as part of their long-term open source choreography project. Additionally, their choreography for live theatre has been seen at the Dick Van Dyke Auditorium, Agecroft Hall and in an English/ASL production of A Chorus Line at RIT with director Christopher Ryan and DASL JW Guido. In addition to extensively performing their own work, Elliot has performed and toured including as part of works by Sara Hook, Jenefer Davies, and Rachel Rizzuto. 

Video mediation has been a consistent choreographic tool for Elliot since they began making work. They move reflexively between live and recorded material as a method for eluding or elucidating the failures of either. They have created video works in several genres including lyric videos, music videos, screen dances, and video art studies. Most recently, they were commissioned by Links Hall in Chicago, IL to create MASCCHAOS as part of the 2021 Co-MISSION festival of new works, which has been programmed by other festivals since its premiere. 

Elliot releases pop music under the moniker Elliot Reza, and additionally creates original sound scores for dance. Recently, they created the sound score for Jennifer Monson’s heap loose – in collaboration with Dr. Joy Yang, for Roxane D’Orleans Juste’s aux sources, with Lucia Gagliardone for her evening-length piece, while we were homegrowing. Since 2024, Elliot has been collaborating with Anna Sapozhnikov on the original sound for Good House Keep. They have an active photography practice that includes portraiture and dance photography. Elliot‘s written research also appears in publications including Integers, Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory and PARtake, The Journal of Performance as Research (V.3 I.1) as well as on their website: elliotreza.com.

Elliot sits at the intersection of disability, neurodivergence, and queerness. They hold a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Illinois, where they studied with Dr. Cynthia Oliver, Jennifer Monson, Sara Hook, Tere O’Connor, and other esteemed faculty in and outside of dance.

Photo: MASCCHAOS (2021)

Image by LaTosha Pointer (Golden Lyt Photography) Costumes by Larissa Almansa