Ellen Smith Ahern (she/her)

Ellen Smith Ahern is a dance artist and social worker/community organizer living with her family on Abenaki lands in N’Dakinna/New Hampshire. Her work explores the intersection of movement, storytelling and nature, including a wider array of people than might otherwise feel welcomed into traditional dance spaces. Ellen has performed and taught around the world, sharing work in diverse venues, from the National Gallery of Art and the Ionion Center of Kefalonia to a landfill in Georgia and a National Park in Vermont.

Together Ellen + Menghan are collaborating on an emerging soundscape for a new performance project, Shell. Rooted in creative field work at Vermont's National Park, the soundscape traces the intersections of multiple ecotones, weaving and building with sounds of wildlife, elements and human presence where forest habitat meets brook, meadow and road. As both a guided experience with embodied listening practices for public use and the beginning of an original score for Shell, their work explores multidimensional means of listening and communicating through layers and across species.

https://ellensmithahern.com/