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EducationDANCERS: Receive our Newsletter for Classes, Workshops and Audition Information
Residency Activities Include: · Master Class Workshop · Repertory Workshop · Stability & Dexterity Classes for Athletes · Choreography Workshop · Customize Your Residency Youth K-12 Activities - Master Classes & 1-2 Week Workshops - Junior Masters Program This program combines age-appropriate lessons in Modern, Ballet, Jazz, & Creative Movement techniques with hands-on tutorials in choreography. This program culminates in a final presentation by students of their student-created ensemble pieces. Taught by principal dancers from Elisa Monte Dance, the Junior Masters Program engages students in a fun and creative activity that builds their physical fitness, increases self-esteem, and stimulates their imagination and creativity. This program also imparts knowledge and appreciation of dance as an art form through in-house reading sessions that support the NY state Learning Standards of Dance Education. These services are offered there days a week for grades K-12 for a 1 ½ - 4 month period depending on the availability of the students and the Teaching Artist. Elisa Monte Dance is a registered Vendor with the Department of Education allowing for an easy transaction of services to New York City Public Schools
The company hosts professional workshops at several NYC studios allowing students to participate in up to 18 sessions throughout the summer. Contemporary Masters - STEPS on Broadway, NYC Peridance Summer Workshop Series - Peridance Capezio Center, NYC Creative Tools Course - STEPS on Broadway, NYC (formerly the EMD Annual Summer Choreographic Workshop) At-Risk Populations This year EMD has paid special attention to “at risk” populations such as the mentally and physically handicapped and battered women. During the company’s residency at Dickinson State University, company members taught dance classes focused on self-esteem for the residents of two social service groups, Able, Inc. and the Life After Fear Support Group. Public access to the collaborative process includes Q&As at select performances and showings to give audiences greater insight into both the art form and the subject matter
These and other educational activities – specifically tailored to the institution and the broader community being served – are offered in conjunction with company performances at venues throughout the United States and the world. Elisa Monte Dance also conducts extended residencies, often in tandem with the creation of new work, which provide in-depth focus on dance creation, preparation, and performance. Residency activities are geared to every level of dancer and student, from community non-dancers and novices to advanced-level students. Elisa Monte Dance employs a comprehensive approach to its activities, utilizing a broad range of skills and techniques from Pilates and a Pilates-based warm-up and work-out to a focused ballet barre; from Graham-informed floor work (Monte is a former Martha Graham principal dancer) to yoga (Monte is also a seasoned Hatha yoga practitioner and teacher). Components of residency activities can include a range of ballet, modern/contemporary, and repertory classes at various levels, depending on the ability of the students involved. Monte and company members perform various aspects of each residency activity. The vast and diverse cultural backgrounds and experience represented in the company offer students a unique and varied perspective on how differing styles and cultures can be beautifully blended to create a cohesive troupe and powerful performances. By fully immersing the students and integrating them into our company for an extended period, we hope to both improve the students’ technique and to instill in them a greater understanding of themselves and of the “process” of dance and choreography. For the duration of longer-term residencies, we assume that students are members of our company and treat them as such. We believe that by maintaining high expectations, we instill in the students a sense of responsibility that enables and encourages them to achieve great leaps in ability and understanding. It is our feeling that constructive and positive comments are most successful and forceful, and that a non-threatening environment is most conducive to the retention of knowledge. – Elisa Monte
The company has also conducted extended "home-base" residencies, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, at Lake Placid Center for the Arts, SUNY/Fredonia, and Hamilton College, SUNY/Buffalo, and the new Kaatsbaan International Dance Center. Additional residencies have included California State University's Summer Arts program, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Studio, and Dance Strides Barbados, among others internationally. | |||||||||||
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Elisa Monte Dance has provided educational services to the following schools: Dickinson High School, Trinity High School, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, NYC P.S. 84, Berkeley Carroll School, NYC P.S. 372, Hetrick-Martin Institute, NYC TAG School, 
