meet Elizabeth

Elizabeth Disharoon Wright is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and The Juilliard School, where she received a BFA with Scholastic Distinction for her thesis on Nutrition and Dancers.  Elizabeth performed professionally in New York City for over a decade before relocating to Greenville, SC in 2015. She has appeared on the major stages of New York, including the Joyce Theater, City Center and the New York State Theater (now the Koch Theater), and has toured nationally and internationally to Italy, Hungary, Russia, Bolivia, Brazil, Thailand, and China.

Elizabeth was a member of the Isadora Duncan Dance Company, led by Lori Belilove, for over fifteen years. As a principal dancer, she toured nationally and internationally with the company and taught numerous workshops and master classes for the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation. While in New York, Elizabeth also served as the company’s rehearsal assistant, regularly teaching company class as well as staging and coaching the company’s repertory of original Duncan choreographies and new works. As a fourth-generation Duncan dancer, Elizabeth also performs on a freelance basis with the Duncan Dance Project and Duncan Dance South.

Reviewing a 2009 Duncan performance, The New York Times said that “Beth Disharoon is exquisite in her use of weight, giving the impression that music flows through her veins…. She makes the movement seductively tangible.” Dance Magazine raved, “Beth Disharoon seemed to best embody the qualities associated with Duncan: womanly lyricism, full-bodied buoyancy, and arms moving with the fluency of a river.”

From 2003-2011, Elizabeth was also a senior member of Jennifer Muller/The Works, creating and performing signature roles in Aria, The White Room, and throughout the company’s wide repertory. She taught Muller Polarity Technique regularly for company class and the apprentice program, and assisted with coaching and rehearsal within the company and for outside workshops and master classes. As a freelance dancer in New York City, Elizabeth has also performed with Buglisi Dance Theatre, Eidelon Ballet, New York City Opera, Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Andrew Jannetti & Dancers, Sue Bernhard/Danceworks, Laura Glenn Dance, Saba Dance Theater, J Mandle Performance, and Nimbus Dance Theater, among others.

Elizabeth attended the Isadora Duncan International Symposium in 2015 and was featured as a presenter in 2017 and again in 2019. Her presentation in 2019 was supported by a grant from Greenville’s Metropolitan Arts Council. She also attended the China-US Creative Forum for Early-Childhood Dance Education while on tour in Shenzhen in 2018.

While based in New York, Elizabeth taught at Randolph College, Mills College, Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp, The Ailey School, Steps on Broadway, Totts Gap Arts Institute and Silva Dance Academy. Her choreography has been presented in New York City at Alice Tully Hall, the Juilliard Theater, the Clark Studio Theater, the HATCH Performance Series, and the Storm Theater on 46th Street, and also at the Kate Theater in Connecticut, where she co-produced an evening with Julia Pond Dance.

Since moving to Greenville, Elizabeth has been on faculty at the Fine Arts Center and then at Furman University. She is currently full-time modern dance faculty at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.