Ballet Classes with Ellen Davis

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 advanced/professional level ballet for over forty years. She has performed, choreographed and improvised works in the United States and abroad. She has taught ballet, improvisational dance and new paradigm teaching approaches as well as piloted ballet programs internationally. She is the founder of Yoga of Ballet. 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. Contact Please contact Ellen at ellentd@aol.com or 310 962-6813 for more information. Ellen is currently teaching ballet in Los Angeles Other related pages: www.yogaofballet.com or www.yogaofballet.info For inquiries, or online coaching, contact her at ellentd@aol.com Ellen is also available to guest teach or to teach private and semi-private classes by appointment. The dancer pictured below, Teanna Zorro, formerly with the Joffrey Ballet Co, was a student of Ellen's when this photograph was taken.