Eleanor Hullihan
Eleanor is a dancer, performer and choreographer. She has most notably performed with John Jasperse (since 2003), Beth Gill, Andrew Ondrejcak, Sufjan Stevens, Jessica Dessner, Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Monson, Tere O'Connor and Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener. Eleanor was one of the soloists in Night of 100 Solos at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and she continues to perform her solos around the country. Eleanor and Katy Pyle have a performance band, asubout, that has been creating fantasy performance, dance, video and music in whimsical, dark and hilarious ways since 2003. Eleanor is creating improvised performances with Jimmy Jolliff, Asli Bulbul and Emma Judkins as Deborah. Deborah is currently creating dance films from a far as the world weathers in quarantine. Eleanor received early training from North Carolina School of the Arts, ADF, Tisch School of the Arts and SEAD. She continues to study the Cunningham technique, ballet with Janet Panetta, Iyengar yoga with Genny Kapuler and various other modalities that come her way. Eleanor continues to work closely with Christine Bratton and Clarice Marshall.
selected press:
Nothing prepared us, for example, for Eleanor Hullihan’s gorgeous dancing, in which she slowly unfurled her spine, vertebra by vertebra, then flung her limbs to the wind. - Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times
Eleanor Hullihan, as vital as a panther. - Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times
A few leaps forwards by Ms. Hullihan seem as shocking as a reversal of gravity. Brian Siebert, New York Times