"Artistry, athleticism, passion, positive energy!"
Elizabeth Elder
Elizabeth Elder
Ellie is an accomplished dance educator, performer and internationally recognized choreographer. Ellie Potts Barrett attended Boston Conservatory and received her BA in Dance (with honors) from the University of South Florida. Out of her many accomplishments, she has composed the Modern Dance Syllabus for the Florida Dance Masters Organization, a study tool for the testing of future Modern dance teachers in Florida. Ellie danced with the Ina Hahn Modern Dance Company, Boston Dance Company and Mary Anthony in New York, as well as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. In addition to her focus on dance, Musical Theatre has always been her first love. She was in the first National tour of Jesus Christ, Superstar (Mary), A Chorus Line (Diana), Grease (Jan), Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road.. to name only a few. She has been an associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to Master Artists Merce Cunningham, Meg Harper and Elizabeth Streb, as well as with Florida's prolific author, Carl Hiaasen. She is the recipient of the Central Florida Lifetime Achievement Dance Award, given by the University of Central Florida. Included in her well over 200 choreographed musicals, around the world, are the Orlando Philharmonic's production of Guys and Dolls, which starred Broadway actor Davis Gaines, Carousel, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, La Traviata, and Mad Cow Theatre's production of HAIR; Douglas Anderson School of the Arts productions - Curtains, Aida, Urinetown, The Musical, and My Fair Lady, and in October of 2019, Guys and Dolls. Ellie choreographed GREASE, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Urinetown, The Musical, and Rent for the Seensee Musical Theatre Company in Seoul, South Korea. She returned to Seoul to create Main Street Parades for Lotte World and Everland Theme Parks. DETACHED, a concert work, was presented at the National High School Dance Festival in 2019.
RENT was performed at DASOTA in April, 2021. I also had the pleasure of working with the most wonderfully talented cast for First Coast Opera's performance of the operettas COX AND BOX, and PENELOPE ANN'S REVENGE in 2021, and in 2022, Die Fledermaus. In 2021, A Chorus Line was produced at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, and received numerous nominations for Central Florida's Applause Awards. It was our initial performance for the Awards!! I am proud to say that I received an Outstanding Choreography award for the show. In 2022, CHICAGO was our Fall production and we once again received 27 nominations for the Applause Awards.
Thanks for visiting my website. Contact me if you have any questions.
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Watch my Interview with the Fabulous Dawn Branch on her YouTube Channel
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CHECK OUT MY CHOREOGRAPHY REEL HERE
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BECAUSE.....was choreographed on the Dance Theatre students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. |
HAMMER AND RAIN was originally set to be a live performance with music composed by Joanne "JoJo" Maffia and danced/choreographed by in order of appearance:
Michelle Ottley Fisher
Ellie Potts Barrett
Mariah Mahoney
Joanna Ursal
Conceived and directed by Joanne "JoJo' Maffia
Edited by Julie Noel Smith
Because of Covid 19 the love show could not happen, so JoJo decided to create a 60 minute film of the 4 choreographers work and her music compositions.
This is a wonderfully intriguing film !!!
The link is below...
refoundsound.anywhereseat.com
FYI.....WE ARE CURRENTLY IN FIVE FILM FESTS!!!!
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From Carol Lee's Review of the Orlando Phil's Production of
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
May 12, 2013 at 12:43 AM
Ellie Potts-Barrett....who do you think you are? Taking a show that for the past 50 years has been revived the same way every way, with the same choreography to the same songs at the same beat...and making it your showcase for your jazz and free style and acrobatics and every other style of dance. Your desire to trust your actors and dancers is pathetic and your want to showcase their talents and not your own is unwise...."god-like"... but unwise.
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from her review of HAIR at the MAD COW
How's my HAIR (the Musical)
June 28, 2014 at 12:38 AM
Ellie Potts Barrett: I can't handle you. I would like to live in your head for just a day... i want to see what crazy messed up delightful entrancing world you live in. You are a beacon of light that shines on dancers (and non dancers) and lets them shine like the top of the Chrysler Building.
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Michelle Ottley Fisher
Ellie Potts Barrett
Mariah Mahoney
Joanna Ursal
Conceived and directed by Joanne "JoJo' Maffia
Edited by Julie Noel Smith
Because of Covid 19 the love show could not happen, so JoJo decided to create a 60 minute film of the 4 choreographers work and her music compositions.
This is a wonderfully intriguing film !!!
The link is below...
refoundsound.anywhereseat.com
FYI.....WE ARE CURRENTLY IN FIVE FILM FESTS!!!!
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From Carol Lee's Review of the Orlando Phil's Production of
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
May 12, 2013 at 12:43 AM
Ellie Potts-Barrett....who do you think you are? Taking a show that for the past 50 years has been revived the same way every way, with the same choreography to the same songs at the same beat...and making it your showcase for your jazz and free style and acrobatics and every other style of dance. Your desire to trust your actors and dancers is pathetic and your want to showcase their talents and not your own is unwise...."god-like"... but unwise.
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from her review of HAIR at the MAD COW
How's my HAIR (the Musical)
June 28, 2014 at 12:38 AM
Ellie Potts Barrett: I can't handle you. I would like to live in your head for just a day... i want to see what crazy messed up delightful entrancing world you live in. You are a beacon of light that shines on dancers (and non dancers) and lets them shine like the top of the Chrysler Building.
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Urinetown The Musical at DASOTA
Urinetown, The Musical at DASOTA
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THE FLORIDA DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION
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