ELYSE MORCKEL (she/her/hers) is a dance artist from Akron, Ohio. She earned her BFA from The Ohio State University with concentrations in choreography and dance technology. In 2017, she joined The Movement Project and in 2022 was named Associate Director. Morckel has performed the choreographic works of Dianne McIntyre, Pam Tanowitz, Kimberly Bartosik, Rebecca Leuszler, Megan Gargano, Grace Nicklos, Liz Conway, and more.

Her choreographic projects include in the end, this is a victory dance (2018, restaged 2022), (6) Vignettes of Drama (2019), Sixes & 7’s (2021, restaged 2023), Coddiwomple (2021), It’s a Game We Play (2022), and VOID (2023). Her work has been presented at festivals and venues including the Ohio Dance Festival, Cleveland Dance Fest, Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, and SummerWorks Concert Series.

Morckel co-choreographed The Little Amal Akron Experience with Dominic Moore-Dunson. She received the 2024 Outstanding Artist in Dance Award and Best Collaborative Project through Arts Alive. That same year, she was named an Artist in Residence and selected as an Ann Amer Brennan Resident through Akron Soul Train, where she is reimagining her latest work, VOID, as a dance film titled Wanderlust Blue in collaboration with Denzel Washington. 

Recently, she relocated to southern Vermont, where she is currently studying Authentic Movement practices with Carolyn Shakti Sedah and continuing to investigate her own creative practices while remaining deeply invested in the future of the northeast Ohio dance community.