VESSEL
CREATION | PERFORMANCE INTENSIVE
VESSEL is an annual short-process creation opportunity for choreographers to expand their adaptive capacity and decision-making skills within a condensed timeframe. Designed by Elyse Fahey and hosted by Studio Sway, the intensive provides rehearsal/performance space and production support for invited artists to create a 30+ minute work in 10 hours.
VESSEL 2026
CHOREOGRAPHER:
ELYSE FAHEY
Elyse is an Albuquerque-based dancer, choreographer, producer, studio owner,
and teacher with 35 years of training and 18 years of professional experience.
Internationally, her choreography and performance have received significant
recognition. Run For Your Life was selected as one of just seven works from over 550 worldwide submissions for SOLOCOREOGRAFICO 2024 in Frankfurt, Germany, and her most recent solo, deathprint, received the Audience Award at
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO 2025 in Lyon, France. Elyse was named a 2025 mentee in the Alleyne Dance Artistic Development Program in the UK, and her international performance credits include HANNIBAL, the world’s largest site-specific contemporary theater production, staged in Sölden, Austria.
As the Executive Director of Studio Sway, a community hub for independent and
freelance dance artists in Albuquerque, Elyse offers classes and workshops, facilitates improvisation experiences, and hosts performances, intensives, and artist residencies. She teaches contemporary jazz, Cunningham technique, ballet, and floorwork conditioning, and has guest taught for New Mexico Ballet Company, Keshet Dance, SOLOCOREOGRAFICO, Dance Theatre Southwest, Carmel Dance Festival, ABQ Dance Connect, The Albuquerque Dance Exchange.
VESSEL 2026 NEW WORK
