In another time and place, Elaine Colandrea would be a temple dancer. In this world, she is a movement artist, Continuum teacher, somatic educator and bodyworker. Elaine’s primary interests have always been the transformational aspects of moving, sounding and breathing, the connection with the natural world and a belief that an artful, embodied presence creates a more humane society.

Based in the Hudson Valley of New York, Elaine also teaches regularly in Italy and has been an invited presenter at ISMETA, the Omega Institute and Shantigar Foundation. In 2017, Elaine became artistic director of Watermark Arts as a way to bring together her two passions – somatic awareness and art. www.watermarkarts.org‍, https://vimeo.com/watermarkarts‍

Elaine shared an intimate, longtime involvement with the practice founded by Emilie Conrad from 1993 until Emilie’s passing in 2014.

Other influential teachers include Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Susan Harper, Robert Ellis Dunn, Lenore Latimer, Irene Dowd, as well as study of numerous therapeutic exercise systems.

Elaine has a M.A. in dance from Columbia University (1982) and was certified as a massage therapist by the Muscular Therapy Institute (1988.) Her clients and students as well as health challenges have also served as teachers.