"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 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. Barrett danced with the Ina Hahn Modern Dance Company, Boston Dance Company and Mary Anthony in New York. 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. Barrett is the recipient of the Central Florida Lifetime Achievement Dance Award, given by the University of Central Florida. Included in her well over 100 choreographed musicals, are Orlando Philharmonic/Mad Cow Theatres' 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 Theatres' production of HAIR. Her most recent choreography for a Musical is - MY FAIR LADY at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, which opened in November of 2018.
Check out my Choreography Reel - for 2019
ELLIE POTTS BARRETT - CHOREOGRAPHER
"Ellie Potts Barrett’s choreography was playful
and dynamic, winking at styles from across musical theatre’s history."
David Charles - Rollins College Theatre Department
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Danced with the Ina Hahn Modern Dance Company and Boston Dance Company
Former Dancer/aerialist with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to master artists Merce Cunningham, Meg Harper, and Elizabeth Streb
Choreography: Walt Disney World, Sea World
Seensee Musical Theatre Company, Lotte World and Everland theme parks in Seoul, South Korea Orlando Philharmonic/Mad Cow Theater production of GUYS AND DOLLS starring DAVIS GAINES, CAROUSEL, HOW TO SUCCEED...,
and LA TRAVIATA with the Florida Opera Theatre
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HELLO DOLLY AT ROLLINS COLLEGE - APRIL, 2016
"Feet—and food—will flutter....Choreographed by Ellie Potts Barrett, the production is one of the Annie Russell Theatre’s most dance-heavy musical offerings in recent history. One particular number to look out for is the “Waiters’ Gallop,” which incorporates table napkins, serving trays, and kabobs laden with food."
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Currently teaching Modern Dance at.......
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville
The Dance Company - St. Augustine
STILL - MOVING, DANCE MODERN DANCE COMPANY
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MY FAIR LADY - NOVEMBER OF 2018
DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
click here to read the review by Dick Kerekes
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PREMIERING A NEW MODERN DANCE WORK
SONATA TOCATA
IN MONTREAL MARCH, 2019
in conjunction with The Eddy Touissant Ballet Company
and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
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COMPANY with Richard Martorano - 2019
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A Musical Theatre Summer Intensive at
TRINTY PREP in Winter Park with Janine Papin - June, 2019
**Janine is a starmaker. Her many successful students include
Broadway star, Denee Benton and Eddie Gutierrez, the assistant to Bayork Lee for A Chorus Line**
Come and join us this coming summer!
contact me on my contact page for info
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DANCE MASTERS OF AMERICA
Atlanta - Summer 2019
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REVIEW
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC
MAY 11, 2013
2PM and 8PM
BOB CARR THEATRE - ORLANDO
My Review of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
by Carol Lee (Notes) on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 12:43am
I am FURIOUS. I will type this as fast as my tiny french manicured hands will type. I have got to let out this anger before I die very prematurely of a heart attack. To the Production Team behind The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra's Production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying:
SCREW YOU. I am sorry to use such vulgar terms, my friends, but that is just the beginning. Screw you for taking a show that is over 50 years old and performing it as if it were written yesterday.
I HATE YOU for leading Orlando Audiences to believe that every show uses a complete orchestra...we all know how many parts are written for a full Broadway show, and that is 5. The audacity of using a Harp......well la dee dah.
You SUCK for finding actors that performed the parts as if they were written for them...Leave it to a bunch of "theme park actors" to compeletely make the show about themselves and pay No heed to the tony award winning performances that came before them. Almost daring the audience to even utter the name Ferris Beuller....the nerve.
EAT IT Ensemble. For completely stealing focus by not stealing focus. Your constant need to be completely in the moment of what was happening around you was quite honestly, indignant. I refuse to be held responsible that i missed portions of the lead actors because i was busy looking for one of you to break character or lose focus and because you never did, it is your fault i have no idea where Gatch went.
DAMN YOU LEAD ACTORS! There are cast recordings of this that exist. And because of your performances tonight, I will never be able to listen to them again. Your need to be "original" is literally exhausting. Every song was sung as if I was hearing it for the first time. A wise woman once said, "if it ain't broke, put sequins on it and make it better." Well thanks to the amount of sequins you used, i now have to make an appointmet to see my eye doctor..The bill will be coming to you.
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.
Frank McClain..I've saved you for last...I hate you I hate you I hate you drop dead. Now Orlando Audiences are going to expect that kind of entertainment EVERYTIME A TOURING SHOW COMES THROUGH!!!.. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???? But, I will never forgive you.....For not casting me in this. Not to mention the fact that you are responsible for the fact that since the down beat of the orchestra at 8PM I have not stopped smiling. It was Perfect. every detail...I haven't been this moved since the first time I sat in a Theater to see Mimi Hines in Hello, Dolly! Orlando was blessed tonight to see a Broadway caliber show, the likes of which this town hasn't seen in years. I am so lucky to have been in the audience, and even luckier to know so many people on that stage, and behind the scenes. Thank you so very much.
Carol Lee, and her friend Matthew
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Urinetown, The Musical - Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
"Ellie Potts Barrett’s choreography was playful
and dynamic, winking at styles from across musical theatre’s history."
David Charles - Rollins College Theatre Department
**********************
Danced with the Ina Hahn Modern Dance Company and Boston Dance Company
Former Dancer/aerialist with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to master artists Merce Cunningham, Meg Harper, and Elizabeth Streb
Choreography: Walt Disney World, Sea World
Seensee Musical Theatre Company, Lotte World and Everland theme parks in Seoul, South Korea Orlando Philharmonic/Mad Cow Theater production of GUYS AND DOLLS starring DAVIS GAINES, CAROUSEL, HOW TO SUCCEED...,
and LA TRAVIATA with the Florida Opera Theatre
*************************************************
HELLO DOLLY AT ROLLINS COLLEGE - APRIL, 2016
"Feet—and food—will flutter....Choreographed by Ellie Potts Barrett, the production is one of the Annie Russell Theatre’s most dance-heavy musical offerings in recent history. One particular number to look out for is the “Waiters’ Gallop,” which incorporates table napkins, serving trays, and kabobs laden with food."
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Currently teaching Modern Dance at.......
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville
The Dance Company - St. Augustine
STILL - MOVING, DANCE MODERN DANCE COMPANY
*****************************************************************
MY FAIR LADY - NOVEMBER OF 2018
DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
click here to read the review by Dick Kerekes
*****************************
PREMIERING A NEW MODERN DANCE WORK
SONATA TOCATA
IN MONTREAL MARCH, 2019
in conjunction with The Eddy Touissant Ballet Company
and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
*************************
COMPANY with Richard Martorano - 2019
*************************
A Musical Theatre Summer Intensive at
TRINTY PREP in Winter Park with Janine Papin - June, 2019
**Janine is a starmaker. Her many successful students include
Broadway star, Denee Benton and Eddie Gutierrez, the assistant to Bayork Lee for A Chorus Line**
Come and join us this coming summer!
contact me on my contact page for info
*********************
DANCE MASTERS OF AMERICA
Atlanta - Summer 2019
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REVIEW
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC
MAY 11, 2013
2PM and 8PM
BOB CARR THEATRE - ORLANDO
My Review of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
by Carol Lee (Notes) on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 12:43am
I am FURIOUS. I will type this as fast as my tiny french manicured hands will type. I have got to let out this anger before I die very prematurely of a heart attack. To the Production Team behind The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra's Production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying:
SCREW YOU. I am sorry to use such vulgar terms, my friends, but that is just the beginning. Screw you for taking a show that is over 50 years old and performing it as if it were written yesterday.
I HATE YOU for leading Orlando Audiences to believe that every show uses a complete orchestra...we all know how many parts are written for a full Broadway show, and that is 5. The audacity of using a Harp......well la dee dah.
You SUCK for finding actors that performed the parts as if they were written for them...Leave it to a bunch of "theme park actors" to compeletely make the show about themselves and pay No heed to the tony award winning performances that came before them. Almost daring the audience to even utter the name Ferris Beuller....the nerve.
EAT IT Ensemble. For completely stealing focus by not stealing focus. Your constant need to be completely in the moment of what was happening around you was quite honestly, indignant. I refuse to be held responsible that i missed portions of the lead actors because i was busy looking for one of you to break character or lose focus and because you never did, it is your fault i have no idea where Gatch went.
DAMN YOU LEAD ACTORS! There are cast recordings of this that exist. And because of your performances tonight, I will never be able to listen to them again. Your need to be "original" is literally exhausting. Every song was sung as if I was hearing it for the first time. A wise woman once said, "if it ain't broke, put sequins on it and make it better." Well thanks to the amount of sequins you used, i now have to make an appointmet to see my eye doctor..The bill will be coming to you.
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.
Frank McClain..I've saved you for last...I hate you I hate you I hate you drop dead. Now Orlando Audiences are going to expect that kind of entertainment EVERYTIME A TOURING SHOW COMES THROUGH!!!.. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???? But, I will never forgive you.....For not casting me in this. Not to mention the fact that you are responsible for the fact that since the down beat of the orchestra at 8PM I have not stopped smiling. It was Perfect. every detail...I haven't been this moved since the first time I sat in a Theater to see Mimi Hines in Hello, Dolly! Orlando was blessed tonight to see a Broadway caliber show, the likes of which this town hasn't seen in years. I am so lucky to have been in the audience, and even luckier to know so many people on that stage, and behind the scenes. Thank you so very much.
Carol Lee, and her friend Matthew
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Urinetown, The Musical - Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
