Eliana Durnbaugh

Teaching Artist

She/Her

Eliana Durnbaugh (hear it) is a Minneapolis-based performer, educator, and arts administrator. She is grateful to belong to the Graham Modern and Bharatanatyam dance lineages under Lisa Thurell and Guru Meenakshi Ganesan. Her most recent credits include dance and puppeteer work with Theater Mu and The Fox and Beggar Theater and as a collaborator in DOIKAYT: a velt mit veltlekh with Or Levinson, as part of Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks project. Eliana adores personal somatic inquiry and derives her pedagogical approach from Laban movement analysis. She is a fierce advocate for dance’s radical empathy-building power and how dancing shapes individuals into compassionate community members.

2024/25 Session Teaching Roster: Creative Movement 1 and 2, Stretching & Somatics, & Community Partnerships

Photo by Junia Morrow