Elana Goodman is a London-based choreographer, movement artist, and educator, and the founder of Textures Movement Collaborative, a project-based collective exploring dance, physical theatre, and somatic practice.

With over 25 years of experience in the performing arts, her work investigates how sensation, repetition, endurance, and play reveal deeper emotional and physical truths in the body. Elana’s choreographic process is collaborative and research-driven, often drawing from performers’ lived physical histories to create work that feels rigorous, intimate, and deeply human. Themes of memory, vulnerability, ritual, and transformation frequently appear throughout her work.

She holds an MFA in Choreography from the University of Roehampton and a BA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach. Her work spans stage performance, dance film, residencies, and community-based projects.

Alongside her choreographic practice, Elana teaches ballet, improvisation, and somatic-informed movement training for dancers and community participants. She is also the creator of Wild Wisdom Studio, a digital space exploring movement, ritual, and embodied healing through a diasporic and body-centered lens.