Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch is a soloist dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York City. She has toured domestically and internationally with the company since 2002. Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch was promoted to soloist in 2006 performing leading roles in “ Lamentation,” “Circe,” “Appalachian Spring,” “Diversion of Angels,” “Steps In The Streets,” and “Cave the Heart.” She has worked with prominent dancers, choreographers and companies, such as Larry Kegwin and Aszure Barton in the “Lamentation Project,” Martha Clarke in “Sueno”, Pascal Rioult, Lou Diamond Philips, Guy Stroman, and Susan Kikuchi in the “King and I,” and with The Philadelphia Dance Company. Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch received her BFA in dance from the University Of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music. While attending college, she performed with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company's apprentice company, and was hired to choreograph for composer Bright Sheng’s opera production of “Song of Majnun,” which was performed at the University of Cincinnati.
Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch began her career as a dancer and choreographer at age fourteen, creating dance pieces at her home in Virginia, and eventually adapting these early works' for her first choreographic production, “Five Dancers.” In 2005, Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch’s choreography was performed at the Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Inside/Out. Most recently, in April 2008, she performed her collaborative work, "At the Crossroads," in New York, at the 92nd Street Y “Sundays at Three”. Other choreographic productions include performances at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Wyoming Seminary Performing Arts Institute, Saint Joseph's University with Opus 1 Contemporary, and Martha Graham School Choreographers’ Showcase.
Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch, a passionate dancer and choreographer, believes that dance is not only a primary means of creative expression, but that it can act as a transformative pathway for personal healing and empowerment. Through years of teaching movement and dance, she has shared her knowledge and belief that people are by-nature creative and that dance is a language common to all. This belief led her to found “Exploratory Dance,” a workshop created for non-professionals to explore their own unique movement vocabulary. The workshop encourages exploration of intuitive, guided expression through movement resulting in the creation of an original work of dance. “Exploratory Dance” first premiered at Four Winds Yoga Studio in New Jersey. Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch also teaches workshops, classes and master classes in the Graham technique, as well as ballet and her own style of dance throughout the United States. In 2007, she set the Martha Graham works “Steps In The Streets” and “Celebration” on the students of Rollin's College and Valencia College in Florida for their annual showcase production.
Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch continues to choreograph, perform and teach hoping to inspire and encourage others to express their own unique vision through the art of dance. She is currently developing “Crossroads: A Healing Journey Around the Sacred Wheel,” a collaborative work about ancient teachings, how they can help us through our current global crisis and transform us personally. Ms. Ellmore-Tallitsch hopes to tour Crossroads internationally and to develop workshops based on the universal message of this powerful work.
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