ELISABETH HARRIS -
Faculty Administrator/Master Instructor
Elisabeth has gained a national reputation for her innovative choreography as evidenced by her work, Nevermore, which was chosen for exhibition in New York City's Performance Outlet, hosted by the famed Broadway Dance Center. Coincidently, she revisited this piece this year and added it to today’s production. She received the prestigious “Most Innovative Choreography Award” from the Dance Educators of America Organization. Elisabeth was commissioned to create and present a piece for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Awards for the Arts celebration in Wilkes-Barre. In addition to her avant-garde dances, Elisabeth has choreographed several musicals and staged nearly twenty full length ballets including, Swan Lake, Coppelia, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, Puss In Boots and La Fille Mal Gardee’. Elisabeth’s students have received full scholarships to such prominent national companies as the Joffrey Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, Philadelphia Dance Company. She brings a whole spectrum of degrees and teaching certifications to her approach on how to properly train a dancer. A certified instructor with the Dance Educators of America organization and she has her college degree in Early Childhood Development. Elisabeth also has a specialized degree in Health, Fitness and Nutrition. Elisabeth has taught courses in dance for Autistic children as well as a specialized program for adults for the Deutsche Institute at College Misericordia. She is the director of College Misericordia’s summer dance camp. For the past six years Elisabeth has been hired by the Moscow Ballet of Russia to train area dancers in for their appearance in the internationally touring Ballet troupe's regional productions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. She has served as a judge for both LIU’s Youth Talent Expo and a preliminary judge for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts for over a decade. She enjoys choreographing liturgical works for area churches.
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