Food for Thought: BIG NEWS! We are fiscally sponsored!

I am so excited to announce that my company, ELSCO Dance, is officially fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. This is amazing news for furthering my company. With this sponsorship I am able to finally apply for grants, fundraise and have a platform to grow my company. I am also excited that it happened on 12/12/12! What a lucky day for me and ELSCO Dance!

So with this exciting news, I decided to start a company page for ELSCO Dance. If you have not done so already, please go "LIKE" the page for all the video, info, and performance updates. On the Facebook page will also be where I will be looking for viewer recommendations. A part of ELSCO Dance is a deep interaction with my audience. I want to hear what YOU want to see. What theme would you like to see for the next piece? What music would you like to suggest? Do you write/compose music and what to get it out into a different environment? ELSCO would love to dance to it! We will be doing these recommendation status' on the page and we can't wait to collaborate with you to get more material for the company. We are excited to have you be involved with ELSCO Dance. Click here to go to ELSCO Dance Facebook page!

Also, if you find it in your heart this year, I would love a donation to ELSCO Dance as my Christmas Present. Donating to ELSCO Dance is tax-deductible (hooray!) but it will also fund the company to rent studio space, pay the dancers for their time, and get us on our way to our first company season! How sweet would that be? Donate now to ELSCO Dance!

I am so proud and excited to see what will happen to ELSCO in 2013. We hope to see you there too!

All the Best,

Ellenore Scott
Artistic Director of ELSCO Dance

Workshop with Ellenore Scott!

Hey Guys!

I am so excited to announce that I will be working Life Dance Company (www.lifedancecompany.org) and have been selected to be one of four choreographers for their 2013 Winter Workshop! Get a chance to work with me one on one while I set an original work on a group of selected dancers. During the period of the workshop I will also be looking for dancers for my own project, ELSCO Dance. I will highly consider dancers who have done the workshop and demonstrated a high level of professionalism and a great work ethic. I hope to see many of you there! Look below for details

and RSVP for the event on their Facebook page!

 Life Dance Company Workshop Link 

Life Dance Company is hosting a Winter Workshop Series at the beginning of the new year! Here's your chance to work with established choreographers in a 14 hour rehearsal experience that will culminate in a performance at Manhattan Movement Arts Center. Join us as we Dance For a Cancer Free World!

When: Rehearsals take place from January 2nd-12th, Performances will be on January 13th and 14th.

Cost: $250 to work with one choreographer

$425 to work with two (please select choreographers' with non-conflicting rehearsals).

* Special proceeds will be donated to our beloved ballet teacher and friend Peter O'Brien*

Choreographers include:

Matthew Rushing
Sidra Bell
Christopher Huggins
Ellenore Scott

The workshop is open to all levels ages 16 and up!

To purchase a slot in the workshop and download a registration form, click here: http://www.lifedancecompany.org/life_dance_company/News___Performance.html


For more information about LDC, check out our website atwww.lifedancecompany.org or email us at lifedanceco@gmail.com

Video Sampler: HENNE Trailer Live!

HELLO! Long time no talk, followers. I hope you are well! I am very excited to announce that above trailer is from the evening length work I set on the awesome dance company in Norway called Glow Dance Company. HENNE premiered at the Sandnes Kulturhus on August 29th, 2012 to a packed house. I finally have the footage from the show and I'm so excited to be sharing it with you guys. Please let me know what you think and leave a comment on the video!

Also, Happy (early) Holidays! As we are getting ready for the holiday season I am starting to put together 2013 schedule for ELSCO Dance. Let me know what you think ELSCO should do next! Have any suggestions of themes, music, costumes, ideas? I would gladly appreciate it.

Thanks y'all! And I hope you enjoy the video.

Much love,

Elle

Food for Thought: ELSCO Dance Debut!

Hello! It's Ellenore Scott here for another Food for Thought segment! We are days away from the 1st Company Debut for ELSCO Dance! I am very excited for my dancers and for the other artists presenting the 7th Amalgamate Artist Series this Saturday at Bridge for Dance! I will be premiering my new work, "LUX:NOX" at the festival and I hope you all can make it! ELSCO Dance will be performing at the 9pm show and tickets are available now! If you would like to purchase tickets, click here!

This debut has really been a dream come true. I have always loved choreography and I am so blessed to be able to work with some of the most unique dancers in the city. I am paying all the dancers out of pocket right now for their artistry, but hopefully in the near future I will be able to get fiscally sponsored and apply for grants! 

If you can please share this post to your family and friends, I would love to have some ELSCO Dance fans in the audience this Saturday! Hope you see you there!

-Elle

Video Tasting: LUX:NOX preview!

LUX: NOX

ELSCO DANCE COMPANY DEBUT 

ELSCO Dance will be premiering new work LUX:NOX at the 7th Amalgamate Artist Series!

Saturday, October 20th, 2012 at the 9pm show!

Location:

Bridge for Dance

2726 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NYC

Directions:

1 train to 103rd

Click here to buy tickets

Hopefully you can come! Please share this post!

Happy Hour Highlights: ELLENA TAKOS

TAKOS has been dancing with ELSCO Dance since 2011. Takos began her amazing relationship with choreographer Ellenore Scott when she started taking her weekly contemporary jazz classes at Broadway Dance Center in New York City. Ellenore realized her amazing technique and dynamics immediately in class and began working with her personally to help her grow as an artist and dancer. Ellenore selected Takos to perform a solo entitled, "Beijing" at The Latin Choreographers Festival in 2011. Ellenore also used Takos in her piece "Woke Up in Beijing" at the New York Jazz Choreography Project at Ailey Citigroup Theater in 2011. Takos has trained a numerous dance schools in the New York City area but has mostly recently been known for working with recording artist Mac Miller as one of his featured dancers.


Takos said about working with ELSCO Dance company, 

"I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of ELSCO Dance! Being in the company of such talented and beautiful dancers and being mentored by the brilliance that is Ellenore Scott has been such an inspiring journey. The movement is thought provoking and creative and like nothing that has been done before. It' s challenging and fresh and to be honest, quite addictive! I look forward to every rehearsal knowing that not only will we be creating something spectacular but we are going to have a great time doing it. Ultimately, ELSCO is beyond a dance company; it's a family that grows with every piece Ellenore sets and every memory we create. I am honored to be part of this family."

Takos is a vital part of ELSCO Dance Company and we are so happy to have her. Above is her solo, "Beijing" that was premiered at The Latin Choreographers Project 2011. Hopefully you can see her perform soon!

For more information on Ellena Takos, please visit her MSA Page: http://www.msaagency.com/ellenatakos/ 

Photography by Rachel Neville

Food for Thought: Starting Process

ELSCO Dance Company has officially started! Beginning a company by yourself is definitely a tough task to take, but when you know it's the right time then you just got to take it and run with it! My company has one task, uniting the worlds of concert dance and commercial dance. As a classically trained dancer and having a commercial dance career I feel like I'm being pulled in two different directions. You have a pick a side. But why? Can't you have both? ELSCO was made to give dancers and audiences both things, the technique of an amazing concert piece but the storytelling of commercial work. My mother, Michelle Burkhart, has truly been a blessing in guiding me the right way to create this company. She has been an Executive Director for multiple organizations and companies so I'm so happy she will be working with my as my E.D. for future projects. 

It has always been a dream of mine since I was a little girl to create my own work. From teaching hip hop starting at the age of 11 at my school in Capitola, CA to choreographing my own solos for small shows around Santa Cruz and San Jose. Coming to NYC and doing small things here and there kept my interest in choreography. I'm inspired by books, stories, music and life. I just have a drive to make work that people can relate to. Pieces where the audience will watch it and say, "That's me up there. That is how I feel/act/think." I want to inspire the dance artists that work with me to come out of themselves and becoming better performers. I will write a separate post about how I had a literal turning point in my career recently when I was setting a evening length piece in Norway. But that is where I said, 

"This is what I want to do. I want to choreograph."

ELSCO has been amazing so far. Multiple rehearsals, photo shoots, filming days. The hard part isn't the creation, it's the backstage process: sending emails, contacting funders, editing videos and music, applying to festivals and fiscal sponsors. Everything in the moment is difficult, but in the end it is always worth it. I will be using ELSCO Dance Lounge as a place to showcase my dancers, my work, but Food for Thought will be my one-on-one time with my readers. Letting them know how my process of starting a dance company from scratch is going and being real with them. I know it's not going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it.  

Photography by Mike Petrie Jr., www.mikepetriejr.smugmug.com