Eloy Barragan MFA – Hollins University
Associate Professor at the University of Iowa
Director/Founder of the International Iowa ScreenDance Festival

Recipient of the choreographers’ fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Boise Arts Council, as well as a Lifetime Career Fellowship by the Idaho Commission of the Arts. This year he received an Artist Project Grant from Iowa Arts Council. His choreography has been presented at the Bolshoi Theatre, Finnish National Opera House, Conservatoire de Paris – Cité de la Musique, Alvin Ailey Studios Citigroup Theater, DiCapo Opera Theater NYC, Teatro Nacional de Panamá, Ballet Real de Costa Rica. His films have been invited to festivals in Mexico, USA, Stockholm, and Cuba. Eloy trained at La Escuela Nacional de Danza in Mexicó, the Royal Academy of Dance UK, Boston Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet in New York. He performed with Joffrey II, Washington Ballet, Compañía Nacional de Danza Mexicó, Ballet Royal de Wallonie, Mainz Stattheater, Hagen Stattheater, Ballet de Monterey, Eugene Ballet, and Ballet Idaho. He is also the Director/Founder of the International ScreenDance Festival, Co-Director of the Iowa Dance Festival.