Ellen Davis has been teaching classical ballet to
children, adults and professionals for over 30 years. She is the former
owner-director of Rozann- Zimmerman Ballet Center in Los Angeles,
dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet Company and Ford Foundation
scholarship student at the School of American Ballet in N.Y.C.
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" all of her
students and gives professional training regardless of age, 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 extend the grace of
dance to all of life. Ellen is currently teaching in San Diego.
Classes held at San Diego Danceworks, in Bayho, near La Jolla
2653 Ariane Dr., San Diego, CA 92117
Adult Basic/Beginning Ballet: Mondays 7:30-9 and Thursdays 7-8:30 pm
Ellen is also available to teach private and
semi-private classes by appointment or to guest teach.
For questions, children's schedule or appointments, contact Ellen at ellentd@aol.com
or 310 962-6813 url for this page: www.yogaofballet.info
What is Dance?
Dance is spirit tasting itself in form,
from
stillness to movement, chaos to harmony, cacophony to symphony, in all
of its infinite diversity. Dance is what we call it when we see the
movement and rhythm that is always already there. Dance is what we do
when we let our bodies breathe our being into becoming and our becoming
into being. Dance is the soul's love and laughter as it breathes into
time. Dance is a heart explosion making love to the air. Dance is form
and formlessness endlessly getting it on. Dance is the merging of sound
and movement, where each feel like they are causing each other. Dance
is God's living in time, as us, through us. Dance is a celebration of
and total immersion into process. Dance is the manifestation of the
fluidity of spirit in form. In that sense, dance is the resolution of
paradox in form. Dance is a noun that is a verb that is life. Dance is
our heart fire as it expresses itself through the body. Dance is a
celebration in form of Now.
