Elena Vazintaris is a choreographer, movement director, and filmmaker. She is a Canadian-born, naturalized American citizen and daughter of Chilean/Greek immigrants who has made New York City her home for 20 years. She has performed for the MTV Video Music Awards, for Shakira and Ludacris, and in campaigns for Converse and Nike. She eventually made the inevitable transition into choreography and movement direction, finding herself on set for indelible brands like Chanel, Dior, Hermes, Calvin Klein, Kate Spade, and Thom Browne. Today, Elena creates at the intersection of dance and the moving image. Her personal work focuses on portraiture as a means of connecting. Exploring memory, identity, and the relationship between the self and the collective human experience propels her work forward. These tenets seep into her more commercial endeavors, making her a highly sought after collaborator. She has been featured in works such as Ryan McGinley: Mirror Mirror (Rizzoli Electra) and Jamie Isenstein: thingamajig (Manif d’ Art, Quebec). Elena’s projects have screened at numerous film and art festivals worldwide, and she has taught workshops at Parson at The New School, Steps on Broadway, and as a regular teaching guest for NVA + Guests. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two sons.