Elliot Hammans (he/him) began his formal dance training in 2008 with Robert Sher-Machherndl and continued his ballet and modern dance education with Moving People Dance in his hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, under the direction of Curtis Uhlemann. He joined Moving People Dance as an apprentice in 2010, trained on full scholarship at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center in San Francisco, and attended Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 2011 and 2012 Summer Intensives. Following studies abroad at Austria’s SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), he earned his BFA in dance in 2014 from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He joined Hubbard Street 2 in August 2014 and was promoted to Hubbard Street’s main company in August 2016. Elliot also works at Athletico Physical Therapy as a rehabilitation aide and enjoys practicing and teaching somatic methods.