Elise May

Choreographer and Video Artist

Elise May

Elise May is a nationally recognised dancer, choreographer and video artist whose career spans two decades. She has worked internationally and in Australia as an independent artist and performer. Elise was invited to join Brisbane’s Expressions Dance Company (EDC) in 2008 and became Assistant Artistic Director to Natalie Weir. Elise has performed, choreographed and been engaged as a teaching artist in Australia, the US, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and China. In 2012 she received the Australian Dancce Award – ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer’
Elise’s 2016 QUT Master of Arts (Research) investigated the use of the moving image and digital media in live performance. Elise’s choreographic practice and research continues to investigate performance design, installation, moving image, site-specific and interdisciplinary contexts for dance and digital media. Her collaborations with animator Paul Van Opdenbosch explored the applications of X-sens motion-capture technology in live contemporary dance performance and abstract generative animation contexts.

Elise was appointed Associate Lecturer in Dance at Queensland University of Technology in 2019 and was Choreographer-in-Residence with CIRCA Contemporary Circus in 2021.

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