Ellice Patterson
Ellice Patterson is the Founder and Executive and Artistic Director of Abilities Dance, a Boston-based dance company that welcomes artists across the nation with and without disabilities. Outside of self-produced Abilities Dance's shows, her choreography has appeared in the MFA, Links Hall in Chicago, Gibney Dance in NYC, The Series: Vol IV at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre in NYC, and more.
Patterson has lectured at workshops, schools, universities, and organizations across the country, including keynote speaker at Berklee's 2020 ABLE Conference, keynote speaker at Trauma Center's Trauma Sensitive Yoga Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Fidelity Investments, Boston University, and more.
She has worked with organizations to improve their intersectional access approaches such as Record Co., Community Music Center of Boston, and more. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College and her Masters of Science in Management Studies from Boston University Questrom School of Business.