Elena is a Choreographer, Movement Director and Film Maker based in Brooklyn, New York.

Elena Vazintaris is a Choreographer, Movement Director and Film Maker. She is a Canadian born, naturalized American citizen and daughter of Chilean/Greek immigrants who has made New York City her home for 20 years. 

She has performed for the MTV Video Music Awards, for Shakira and Ludacris and in campaigns for Converse and Nike. She eventually made the inevitable transition into choreography and movement direction finding herself on set for indelible brands like Chanel, Dior, Hermes, Calvin Klein, Kate Spade and Thom Browne. 

Today, Elena creates at the intersection of dance and the moving image. Her personal work focusses on portraitures as means of connecting. Exploring memory, identity, and the relationship between the self and the collective human experience propels her work forward. These tenants seep into her more commercial endeavors making her a highly sought after collaborator. She has been featured in works by Ryan McGinley: Mirror Mirror (Rizzoli Electra) and Jamie Isenstein (thingamajig, Manif d’ Art, Quebec)

Elena’s projects have screened at numerous film and art festivals world wide and has taught workshops at Parsons at The New School, Steps on Broadway, Peridance, a regular teaching guest for NVA + Guests and on faculty at Mark Morris Dance Centre.

She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two sons.