Michelle Ellsworth with purple hair types at an old-style typewriter with a contraption of wood, string and metal coming out of it while someone out of the shot points a camera at her.
Professor, Theater and Dance
michelle.ellsworth@colorado.edu

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Though not a licensed technologist or carpenter, Michelle Ellsworth nevertheless co-mingles these disciplines with dance to create solutions and/or demonstrations of peculiar geopolitical (and personal) phenomena. The pharmaceutical and political potential of dance interests her, as well as the value of broken and labor-intensive ideas.听听

Among Ellsworth鈥檚 honors are a Doris Duke Artist Award (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), a Doris Duke Impact Award (2015), a NEFA National Dance Project Grant (2014 and 2017), a Creative Capital Fellowship (2013)听and a USA Artists Knight Fellowship in Dance (2012). She has received three National Performance Network Creation Fund Commissions (2004, 2007 and 2016).听听Trailers for her most recent work can be found below.

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In the news

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Michelle Ellsworth, former interim CMAP director, honored as "Distinguished Professor"

Dec. 14, 2020

Michelle Ellsworth, a member of the ATLAS faculty advisory board and former interim director of the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 Center for Media, Arts and Performance (CMAP), is one of 12 CU Boulder faculty members recently honored as "Distinguished Professors." CU Distinguished Professors are tenured faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work, a record of excellence in classroom teaching and supervision of individual learning, and outstanding service to the profession, the university and its affiliates.

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Dance and tech do a pas de deux on NSF-funded project

Oct. 28, 2019

Under-represented students in STEM are about to get a leg up, thanks to a new project merging dance and technology from the University of Colorado Boulder and New York University.

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Daily Camera: Interim ATLAS CMAP director Michelle Ellsworth wins 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award

July 21, 2019

鈥淭he body and dance is actually a really potent platform to discuss technology in society and current geopolitical situations,鈥� she said.