Though not a licensed scientist, technologist, pharmacist, or carpenter, Michelle Ellsworth (a middle-aged white woman) nevertheless co-mingles these disciplines with dance in an attempt to choreograph coping strategies and wood-based and web-based solutions to geopolitical (and personal) phenomena. Among Ellsworth’s honors are: Doris Duke Artist Award (2019), Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), Doris Duke Impact Award (2015), NEFA National Dance Project Grant (2017, 2014), Creative Capital Fellowship (2013), and USA Artists Knight Fellowship in Dance (2012). Currently, Ellsworth is a Professor of Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

As part of the fiction/nonfiction mini series, Michelle Ellsworth will participate in a conversation with Kirsten Johnson and Mary Ellen Carroll.