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High School Student Film Competition Workshop with Ellen Bar
November 21, 2011 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Free
Monday November 21st, 2011
10:00am-12:00pm
Beacon School- Dance Studio (room 234)
Workshop Info
Combing the Advanced Film Class and Hip Hop Class, Ellen Bar will show excerpts from her dance film Jerome Robbins’ NY Export: Opus Jazz and discuss the challenges of filming.
Ellen Bar
Ellen Bar attended the School of American Ballet from the age of eight and was asked to join the New York City Ballet as a corps member in 1998. She danced featured roles in classic works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and Christopher Wheeldon, and was promoted to Soloist in 2006. As a child, Ellen danced as a Candy Cane in Emile Ardolino’s The Nutcracker with New York City Ballet; as an adult she appeared in the feature film Center Stagedirected by Nicholas Hytner and created an animated character in Barbie of Swan Lake. While dancing full-time, Ellen earned an Associate’s Degree in Business from Penn State University and continues to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in English at Columbia University. In 2005, Ellen was part of the original ensemble cast of the NYCB revival of NY Export: Opus Jazz when fellow NYCB soloist Sean Suozzi conceived of a present-day, on-location film adaptation of the ballet. Together, Ellen and Sean developed, produced and creatively helmed the project from inception to completion. In May of 2011, Ellen retired from her 13 year career as a professional ballerina and is now Director of Media Projects at New York City Ballet.