As a teacher, Carrie enjoys being able to pass on her twenty years of movement experience on to others. Carrie graduated Cum Laude, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with a BFA in dance. She currently teaches workshops and master classes throughout the east coast to all and anybody interested in movement. Carrie has trained professional dancers, aspiring dancers, novices', visually impaired, gymnasts', children, and adults in many dance and fitness forms. She has worked as a personal trainer for the New York Sports Club where she became a certified personal trainer from the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Recently, Carrie worked with the students of Rollins College and Valencia Community College in Orlando Florida setting two Martha Graham works. Carrie also created "Exploratory Dance" at Four Winds Yoga. This was a six week workshop open to the non-professional to creatively explore movement in their own unique way. Carrie has also taught for National Dance Institute of New Mexico, Art of Motion, Wyoming Seminary Performing Arts Institute, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Princeton Ballet School, Long Island University, Peridance, Motion Gymnastics, Arts Youniversity , and at the Virginia Arts Festival.
BIG SKY PROJECT: Sacred Animals/Sacred Dance workshop
February 21st, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – New York, New York
Sacred Animals/Sacred Dance workshop is coming to Manhattan for the first time
on March 29th, 2008 at the Church Street School for Music and Art. Learn medicine
teachings and animal power dances. Find and learn the connection to your magical
animal companion. Learn your own unique movements and the powers bestowed on you
from your animal’s spirit-knowledge which leads to self understanding and personal
power.
The workshop facilitators are Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, a soloist with the
Martha Graham Dance Company, choreographer, and dance instructor, David
Carson, of best-selling Medicine Cards fame, and Greta Carson, a long time
Ceremonialist, group leader, and Grammy winning songwriter. The workshop is open to
anyone who wants to learn and anyone who wants to further their knowledge.
“The animal teachings are unique,” says Carrie. “With proper understanding, the
dance becomes a way to invoke, connect, and commune with your personal power
animal.” Further elaborating, she said, “teaching around the sacred medicine wheel, call it
the wheel of life if you prefer, reorient a person spatially. This journey becomes your
own personal moving meditation.”
“Humanity has had a kinship with animals since forgotten time,” says David.
“Shamans all over the planet recognize the power of animals and seek to connect with the
master spirit of an animal recognized for the power to heal, to hunt, and give comfort, to
teach stealth, facilitate inward understanding, learn strategy, discernment,
spiritual wisdom, and for their divinatory powers or various other attributes.” Tribal
people held rituals and dances calling on animal spirits, courting the medicine powers the
animals could furnish.”
“It seems that these truths have become lost in the hustle of modern Western
civilization,” Greta says, “however, it is possible to rediscover them. The essential truths
cannot be lost. When they are called upon the dreamers will dream them and the dancers
will dance them. The rediscovery lies waiting in the subconscious of all people and the
universe. It is possible to reconnect with the heartbeat of the world and this can give you
power to heal yourself and help humanity.”
Sacred Animals/Sacred Dance will connect you with a deep integrity to animal
energies in spirit and in fact. It will facilitate a deep understanding of the true
depth of these ancient ways and reopen lost doorways of magical possibility.
Sacred Animals/Sacred Dance workshop will take place on Saturday March 29th, 2008
from 9-4pm at the Church Street School for Music and Art located at
74 Warren Street New York, NY 10007. To register or for more information on the
workshop please contact Carrie at carrieellmore@msn.com or 609 635-1551
Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, dancer
with the Martha Graham Dance Co. in New York, teaches a move to Rollins and
Valencia Community College students.
(DARIN WHYLAND, SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL)
Feb 3, 2007
Dancer Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch
demonstrates blocking to Rollins and Valencia Community College students.
(DARIN WHYLAND, SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL)
Feb 3, 2007
Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, dancer
with the Martha Graham Dance Co. in New York, teaches a move to Rollins and
Valencia Community College students.
(DARIN WHYLAND, SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL)
Feb 3, 2007
Click on the link above to view an article about Carrie's teaching in Orlando.