Eli Shi
Dancer
Eli Shi is a Chinese American dance artist and healer from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Their movement practice draws from post-modern and contemporary dance, as well as the lineages of Chicago House, Breaking, and Ballet. As a choreographer, Eli is interested in themes of intimacy, (dis)connection, love, death, grief, and uses improvisation/freestyle, community organizing, and ritual work as their primary modes of research. In 2024, Eli graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Human Biology and minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Theater and Performance Studies. Eli comes from a lineage of Chinese medicine doctors and is currently pursuing a license in acupuncture and herbal medicine. Resilience is his first project with The Foundry