Ellie Escosa Carter is a dance teacher, performer, and choreographer who danced professionally with Eisenhower Dance Detroit, BalletMet, and American Repertory Ballet. She graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University and earned her MFA from The Ohio State University, where she was a university fellow and a graduate teaching associate. She has been on the faculty at both the Princeton Ballet School and the Eisenhower Dance Detroit Center for Dance. 

Carter is a Lecturer in Dance at The Ohio State University and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Kenyon College and has taught ballet, ballet pedagogy, writing about dance, modern/postmodern dance movement practice, and dance history. She has given masterclass series at Wittenberg University, Central Ohio Youth Ballet, Oakland University, and has been a guest artist with The Moving Architects. 

While living abroad, Carter taught for Ballet in Small Spaces in Oxford, England, and served as a guest teacher and rehearsal assistant for Dance Denmark.

Her work entitled Pathways of Intersection, created on dancers at Kenyon College, was recently featured in the ACDA East-Central Gala Concert.

As a dancer, a teacher of dance, and a maker of dance, Carter seeks to evoke embodied meaning by exploring her own, as well as her collaborators’/dancers’ physicalities, movement histories, and virtuosity.