Elinor Kleber Diggs

Dancer/Swing

Elinor Kleber Diggs, based in Harlem, New York, is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. They grew up training in dance at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and at TU Dance Center. Elinor holds a BFA in Dance Performance with a Concentration in Composition from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. They have performed works by Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Christian Warner, Catherine Kirk, Marcus Jerrell Willis, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, and Dianne McIntyre. Elinor has been fortunate to show their work at the Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater Lab in White Plains, NY, the QUEER NOISE New York City Annual Festival, and premiered an excerpt of their new work ‘Crimson’ as a part of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals event hosted by Pepátian in The Bronx, NY this January. Recently, Elinor was selected for the 2025 Baryshnikov Arts Fellowship at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and the CUNY Dance Initiative AiR Program at CUNY York.