"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. Ellie 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. 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 Orlando Philharmonic/Mad Cow Theatre'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 Theatres' 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 new Modern 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, May, 2021. 2021 also saw A Chorus Line, and choreography for "The Andrew Sisters" for the Jacksonville Symphonys' Pops Concerts. Coming projects are Fall 2022, CHICAGO, THE MUSICAL at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, New Years Eve, 2022 - A Very Special Performance of Die Fledermaus at Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College with The First Coast Opera, and in March 2023, INDECENT at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.
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Watch my Interview with the Fabulous Dawn Branch on her YouTube Channel
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Douglas Anderson School of the Arts presents
November, 2022
CHICAGO, THE MUSICAL
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts presents
November, 2022
CHICAGO, THE MUSICAL
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Presents
March, 2023
March, 2023
- INDECENT
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A very special New Years' Eve performance of
Die Fledermaus
Operetta by Johann Strauss II
2022
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Die Fledermaus
Operetta by Johann Strauss II
2022
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Urinetown The Musical at DASOTA
Urinetown, The Musical at DASOTA
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