After receiving a bachelor's degree in composition
and choreography from the University of California, Riverside, Eli
danced with Heidi Duckler's Collage Dance Theater,
Stephanie Gilliland and Dancers, and Lizz Roman and Dancers. An
excellent musician and composer, Eli has enhanced the
Conservatory's ballet and modern technique classes as a
musical accompanist since 2005. He has also composed dance music
for a number of works created by Summer Lee Rhatigan on the
Conservatory's students, as well as for Trapeze World,
Rapt Productions, Company Chaddick, and KT Nelson. As a
choreographer, he has created works for the dance department at the
University of San Francisco and for the younger dancers in the
Conservatory's summer intensive program. He frequently
travels and performs with the band Notorious, and has performed
with: Thomas Dolby, Sugar Hill Gang, Tiffany, Tone Loc, Howard
Jones, George Clinton; and Singers from: Tears for Fears, Motley
Crue, English Beat, Living Colour, Dee-Lite, Naked Eyes, Digital
Underground, and Twisted Sister.
