Elyssa Dru Rosenberg (Director) holds a Master’s degree in Dance Education from New York University and a Bachelor degree in Political Science from Tufts University. She is a fifth generation Duncan dancer, who has studied Isadora Duncan’s work with Carrie-Ellen Tron, Patt Adams and Lori Belilove. She was a member of the Isadora Duncan Youth Ensemble with which she toured in New York and Europe. Elyssa has authored and co-authored several papers about Isadora Duncan, dance history and dance theory, including “The Philosopher’s Dances: The Influence of Politics on Isadora Duncan’s Creative Process,” “Body, Mind, Spirit: Choreography by Duncan, Laban and Hawkins,” and “A Call to Arms: Isadora Duncan’s Military Works.” She has presented papers at the National Dance Education Organization’s annual conference and recently presented a paper at the Society of Dance History Scholars conference at Stanford University. Elyssa has taught Master classes in Isadora Duncan’s technique and about her history at New York University, Tufts University and at elementary, middle and high schools throughout the northeastern United States. Elyssa is the founder and Director of isadoraNOW, a contemporary dance company.
Raleigh Veach (Associate Artistic Director) trained at North Carolina School of the Arts where she received her High School Diploma in Ballet. From there she attended SUNY Purchase College and graduated in May of 2007 with a B.F.A. from the Conservatory of Dance and a minor in Anthropology. In 2004 she toured Spain with Ballet Contemporaneo de Burgos under the direction of Kazuko Hirabayashi. In New York, she has danced with Nina Winthrop, Sudden Enlightenment Theatre, Yung-Li Chen, Danielle Devoux Greer, Ashley Browne Kinetic Project, Roxanne Lola Movement Machine, Lane & Co., York Dance Works, and is currently a member of Anabella Lenzu Dance Drama. Raleigh has been dancing with isadoraNOW since 2008, and will never cease to express her soul through Isadora’s works and style.
Gianna Iannelli is from McAllen, Texas and began training at Dancentre of Edinburg. Upon moving to New York she had the opportunity to train at the Joffrey Ballet School, Ballet Hispanico, and the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet Studio Company. She currently attends Hunter College were she is completing her degree and became a member of Isadora Now in June 2011.
Yuki Ishiguro is from Japan. He discovered Break dance in college. Since then he has learned many forms of dance. After he worked as a Ballet dancer in Japan, he moved to New York in 2009. He has worked with Igal Perry, Max Stone, Isabel Gotzowsky, Darcy Naganuma, dance company “The movement,” Dance Visions,” “isadoraNOW,” “ANAHATA dance,” “Amalgamate dance company,” “Balasole dance company” and “Yoo and dancer.” Now he teaches Break dance at St. Paul’s Church, Long Island and he is presening his own works. “This dancer’s range- from Ballet to hip-hop- gives all his dancing a striking individuality.” – Oberon’s Grove. “Yuki Ishiguro is a speedy mix of b-boy, gymnastics and dance that seeminly could only be done by a gymnast who have street performing cred and some serious dance training.” -Offoffoff
Nicole Restani was born in Miami and spent 17 years in sunny South Florida where she was first introduced to dance at Coral Springs Academy. She began her pre-professional training at Dillard Center for the Arts, which later landed in her NY at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance where she is completing her BFA. She has performed work by Carolyn Dorfman, Joszef Hajzer, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Jose Limon, Robert Moses, Pam Tanowitz, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp as well as Petipa’s Sleeping Beauty and Fokine’s The Dying Swan. She has had the pleasure of dancing with Dance Now! in Miami, Jubilee Dance Theater throughout Spain, and Olga Dunn Dance Co, as well as studying abroad in Taiwan and Spain. She looks forward to her future with isadoraNOW.
Lindsay Reuter began her dance training along the majestic Jersey Shore, which she will always call home. She ventured north to Maine for school and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Women and Gender Studies from Bates College. While at Bates, Lindsay performed in the works of Doug Varone, Mark Dendy, Monica Bill Barnes, and William Pope.L. After dancing for Kate Watson-Wallace and Julia Eichten in the Bessie Schönberg Residency at the Yard on Martha’s Vineyard in the Summer of 2011, Lindsay relocated to New York where she is a work/study student at the Mark Morris Dance Center. She is thrilled to be joining isadoraNOW.
Caroline Yost is a recent graduate of George Mason University, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. While studying at Mason, Caroline was cast in multiple works, including guest artist Lar Lubovitch’s “Dvorak Serenade,” and faculty pieces by Constance Dinapoli, Karen Reedy, and James Lepore. Caroline has performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Millennium Stage, and has also had her own choreography performed there. Since graduation, Caroline has danced with The Well Performance Project, under the direction of Dawud Jackson, as well as Laurel Desmarais, of Dance New Amsterdam. This past summer, Caroline spent one month dancing with Bettmann Dances, collaboratively creating and performing “Quis Custodiet,” an original evening length work to premiere at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Caroline has performed with Kelley Donovan and Dancers, a company based jointly out of New York City and Boston. Caroline joined isadoraNOW in October of 2011.