Ballet Classes with Ellen Davis
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Ballet Classes with Ellen Davis
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Background
Former owner-director of Rozann-Zimmerman Ballet Center in Los Angeles, Ellen Davis danced with the Stuttgart Ballet Company and was a Ford Foundation scholarship student at the School of American Ballet in N.Y.C.
Ellen has taught beginning through professional level ballet for thirty years. A choreographer, she has performed, choreographed and improvised works in California, New Mexico and abroad. She lived and taught ballet, improvisational dance and new paradigm teaching and learning approaches at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India and at the Children's Palace in China.
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Approach
Ellen uses the teaching of dance as a way of evoking self-acceptance, beauty, balance, grace, a sense of unity and love for the process of learning. She acknowledges and nurtures the "dancer within" in all of her students regardless of body-type, limited self-belief, or level of training.
She believes that along with proper placement and technique, the awakening of expressive truth, musicality and one's innate creative intelligence are equally important in empowering dancers to use the body as a means of creative self-expression and to extend the grace of dance to all of life.
Ellen is also available to teach private and semi-private classes, workshops in improvisational dance, guest teach and to facilitate private whole-person healing sessions.
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Contact
Please contact Ellen at ellentd@aol.com or 310 962-6813 for more information.
Related pages, visually different with much of the same information:
Yoga of Ballet:
http://hometown.aol.com/ellentd/page1.html
Dance and Movement with Ellen Davis:
http://hometown.aol.com/sunyalila/myhomepage/profile.html
To hear an audio interview of Ellen speaking about teaching, paste this into your browser:
http://www.teachersteachers.com/RMS/playInterview.cfm?key=088268&firstName=Ellen&lastName=Davis
The dancer pictured above, Teanna Zorro, formerly with the Joffrey Ballet Co, was a student of Ellen's when this photograph was taken.
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