Elements Contemporary Ballet

Elements Contemporary Ballet is Chicago’s bold new dance company, combining the beauty of classical technique with the intensity of innovative contemporary dance. Artistic Director Mike Gosney co-founded Elements with dancer and Managing Director Joseph Caruana in 2005, presenting the company’s first full length concert one year later on September 19, 2006 at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago. Using the four elements of nature—fire, earth, air, and water, representing expression, physicality, focus, and freedom—as a basis for creating unique and high caliber new works, Gosney and Caruana have built a repertory that includes work by up-and-coming choreographers from such prestigious companies as Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, BJM Danse, and Luna Negra Dance Theatre, With an original, distinctive style all its own, the company has now grown to present an annual season at the Athenaeum Theatre on Chicago’s north side, as well as participate in exciting programming such as Palm Desert’s McCallum Theatre Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center’s Dancebridge program, and The A.W.A.R.D. Show! at Dance Center of Columbia College. Currently in the works for Elements Contemporary Ballet’s 6th performance season is a monumental 10-choreographer collaboration comissied for the Chicago Cultural Center and brand new contemporary ballet suite being created in collaboration with the Baroque Band entitled The Sun King.