Founded in 2017 by Artistic Director Ellen Sickenberger, DEPTH dance is a project-based contemporary dance company with roots in NYC and currently based in Phoenix. The company has presented work in venues including Salvatore Capezio Theater, Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, Hudson Guild Theater, Dixon Place, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, Suzanne Dellal studios in Tel Aviv and more. They've presented work in Pushing Progress, Austin Dance Festival , Atlanta MIXTAPE Festival, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, and Process/Talks (Suzanne Dellal), and shows all over the east coast and midwest. The company's first dance film venture in collaboration with cinematographer Brian J. Hollars, "Fates", has been screened at four different festivals nationally and was been twice awarded Audience Favorite (Austin Dance Film Festival and Emotions Short Film Festival). The company has been commissioned for numerous split bill shows and residencies. Ellen's work has been described as "hauntingly beautiful" and "captivatingly chilling" [BWW Reviews] with "stunning and economical" partnering [The Dance Enthusiast]. "True to its name, DEPTH dance works to uncover the expanse of movements potential in a way that could only come from working together with sensitivity and consideration" [Cecly Placenti - TiLLT Magazine]. Ellen's choreography uses athletic, theatrical, and anthropomorphous movement to create a social commentary. The company emphasizes humanism and explores depth psychology; the study of unconscious mental processes and motives and their relationship to consciousness. DEPTH dance relates to its audience by promoting togetherness through displays of flaws and ugliness.