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. Elisabeth was commissioned to create and present a piece for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Awards for the Arts celebration in Wilkes-Barre. She received the prestigious “Most Innovative Choreography Award” from the Dance Educators of America Organization. Elisabeth has choreographed several musicals and staged nearly twenty full-length ballets. She created a new program called “The Dance in All of Us,” a dance program for autistic children for which she received grants from the Luzerne Foundation and the Earthly Angels Foundation. Wyoming Area 10th street Elementary hired her as the Artist in Residence to teach dance and movement classes. Elisabeth’s students have received full scholarships to such prominent national companies as the Joffrey Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, and Philadelphia Dance Company. 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 eleven years Elisabeth has been hired by the Moscow Ballet of Russia to train area dancers for their appearance in regional productions of Swan Lake and The Great Russian 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 is the proud mother of Jameson Joseph