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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 over thirty
years. A choreographer,
she has performed, choreographed and improvised works in California, New Mexico
and abroad. She taught and lived for a year at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
in India.
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. While seing good technique and
the spirit of the movement as
an integrated and inseparable whole, she evokes and encourages, right
from the beginning
levels, the expressive and musical qualities right along with the
technique.
Yoga
of Ballet is a traditional classical ballet class taught with a yogic
approach that can be translated
into one's life. The classes are progressive; in each class more is
taught and asked
of the dancers. Sometimes improvisational movement is given at the end
of class so that
dancers can get an experience of their innate creative intelligence,
authentic expressive
truth and "owning" their movement. Getting an experience of
that enables them
to translate it into the rest of their work.
The
class is one and one-half hours in length and semi-private classes vary
in cost according to
how many are in the class. Private classes are $80-$100/hour (sliding scale).
Classes held at San Diego Danceworks, near La Jolla 2653 Ariane Dr., San Diego, CA 92117 Adult Basic/Beginning Ballet: Mondays 7:30-9 and Thursdays 7-8:30 pm Adult Intermediate Ballet: Wednesdays, 7:30- 9 pm pointe 9-9:30 pm Saturdays 12-1:30 pm pointe 1:30-2 pm Please call for children's schedule Ellen
is also available to teach private and semi-private classes, workshops
in improvisational
dance, to guest teach and to facilitate private whole-person healing sessions
as well as satsang.
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All you need is already within you, only you must
approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous
errors....
All I plead with you is this: Make love of your self
perfect.
~ Nisargadatta
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