Elena was born in Zurich and grew up in a Swiss village near the Italian border. Since her studies at Iwanson School for Contemporary Dance in Munich/DE, she is internationally active in performing arts. Elena's choreographic universe unfolds fluid and sensory spaces between performers and audiences through a variety of stage formats – from the classical stage piece, to the mise-en-scène of an entire village, parcours in urban spaces, dance films and holographic installations. As an artist, she embodies multiple roles: dancer, choreographer, director, writer, filmmaker as well as costume and set designer. Her work has been awarded with a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2018 a.o. 2020/21 she pursued a creative dialogue with dance dramaturge Guy Cools within the Double mentoring programme of Migros Cultural Percentage. Currently, she develops the trilogy Poems From Inner Space with collective PR·SMA, hosted at Kurtheater Baden between 2022 and 2024.

Elena lives between Zurich and Stuttgart.