Elaine Summers MA, Fulbright Scholar, MIT Fellow, CAVS and renowned choreographer. An original member of the Judson Dance Theatre and founder of the Xperimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City, Elaine is recognized as a multimedia artist combining dance with all art forms, including film and video. Her works have been favorably reviewed in Dance, Harpers Bazaar, MS Magazine, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Medion (The Museum of the Media), and in numerous other journals and news papers.

Summers pioneered the first total intermedia concert integrating multiple film images, sculpture, music at the Judson Dance theatre in N.Y. City in 1964 with "Fantastic Gardens" Stated reviewers: "Combining live performers and film on a here and now basis - avant garde dancer choreographer Elaine Summers searched independently for such a fusion." - Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times. "It was impossible not to be absorbed in the multiple aspects; One could bask in the total atmosphere; unusual and provocative." Jill Johnston, Village Voice "an entire new and complex medium" Dance Scope "Brilliantly realized"
Dance Magazine.