Ellen Bromberg
guest artist
facilitator/mentor
instructor
Ellen Bromberg, award winning choreographer, filmmaker, curator, educator and recipient of the 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, has received numerous awards for her work including: two Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards—one for outstanding achievement in choreography for The Black Dress, which was broadcast on PBS Television’s Alive From Off Center, and a second for her work with Douglas Rosenberg on Singing Myself A Lullaby. She has also received a Bonnie Bird American Choreographer Award, a Pew National Dance/Media Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the George Soros Foundation, and others.
Ellen’s screen works have been broadcast on numerous public television stations, and presented at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival, Body on Screen at the Melbourne International festival of the Arts, Dance Camera West in Los Angeles, Perro Rabioso International Dance Film Festival and other national and international dance film festivals. Recent work focuses on the integration of media in performance and she has designed video for stage and installation in her own work and in collaboration with choreographers Della Davidson, Pat Graney, Stephen Koester, among others.
An Associate Professor at the University of Utah, Ellen was the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology and is also the founding director of the International Dance for the Camera Festival. She teaches courses in dance for camera and has designed a Graduate Certificate in Dance Film, in collaboration with the Division of Film Studies.