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| - Michelle Ellsworth is an American dancer and performance artist, as well as a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at University of Colorado Boulder. Her "smart, singular" work spans live performance, video, performable websites, and drawing, employing absurdist humor, carpentry, technology, monologue, and dance. Ellsworth has received, among other awards, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Impact Award, a Creative Capital Grant and a United States Artists Knight Fellowship. ArtForum has described her work as "some of the most engrossing explorations of how the body and technology coexist and collide." (en)
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| - Michelle Ellsworth is an American dancer and performance artist, as well as a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at University of Colorado Boulder. Her "smart, singular" work spans live performance, video, performable websites, and drawing, employing absurdist humor, carpentry, technology, monologue, and dance. Ellsworth has received, among other awards, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Impact Award, a Creative Capital Grant and a United States Artists Knight Fellowship. ArtForum has described her work as "some of the most engrossing explorations of how the body and technology coexist and collide." Ellsworth has exhibited and performed at venues such as On The Boards (2004, 2005, 2012, 2015, 2019), Fusebox Festival (2013, 2015, 2019), (2015, 2018), Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (2017), Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen, Netherlands (2016), Made in the U.S.A Festival at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, Greece (2016), in New York, NY (2015), Brown University (2011, 2015), Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Liverpool, UK (2013), Danspace (2012), DiverseWorks in Houston, TX (1996, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009), and Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, NY (1992, 1993, 1996, 2007). Some of Ellsworth's major works include Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome, TIFPRABAP.ORG, Phone Homer: Clytemnestra's Guide to Surveillance-Free Living, and Clytigation: State of Exception. Ellsworth has been dubbed "one of the most brilliant artists working today" and an "excellent comedian," one who "expertly folds nervousness into her character." (en)
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