NAME

Eleni Loving (she/her)

POSITION

Artistic Associate, Gibney Company

HOMETOWN

Dallas, Texas

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Dallas Black Dance Academy; Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Dallas); The Juilliard School; The Dance Theatre of Harlem; Arts Umbrella; and Alonzo King LINES Ballet.

EXPERIENCE

Worked with choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Francesca Harper, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Justin Peck; Helped lead the first Juilliard improvisation residency for Ballet Tech; Worked with Shamel Pitts and TRIBE Collective appearing in Calvin Klein’s 2022 “This is Love” Pride Campaign; Collaborated with Francesca Harper for her work in Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum.

HONORS

2022 Princess Grace Honoraria Award winner; Artist as Citizen award (presented by Juilliard’s President, Damian Woetzel); YoungArts winner in Modern / Contemporary Dance; NAACP ACT-SO awardee.

INTERESTS

Eleni's Moving Toward Justice Fellowship, BEYOND THE SCOPE (BTS) podcast, aims to highlight the multiplicity of dancers as people and foster the awareness that dancers have agency in moving into whatever passions they might have, either after a performance career or alongside it.

CONTACT

@eleni.loving

IMAGES

Courtesy of Gibney; Back of card image by Amy J. Gardner