Elisabeth Motley

Board Member

Artist in Residence (2024-2025)

A headshot of a white woman wearing a black button-up shirt and colorful necklace. She has dark brown hair, and her hands are lifted to the sides of her head. Photo by Mr. Wattson.

Elisabeth Motley (PhD) (she/her) is a disabled choreographer, scholar, and teacher whose work examines disability as a framework for choreography and dance. She has been a Fulbright US-UK Scholar, a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist in Residence, a Movement Research Artist in Residence, a Center for Performance Research Artist in Residence, and a Dance/NYC Disability Dance Social Justice Fellow. Motley has presented choreography at Movement Research at Judson, Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Festival Oltre Passo Italy, and Springboard Danse Montreal, among others. Her writing has been published in Choreographic Practices, Dance Chronicle, Dance Research, The Drama Review, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive. She is an Associate Teaching Professor of Dance at Northeastern University-NYC.

https://www.elisabethmotley.com/