MASTER CLASSES - Elower-Sicilia Productions of Dance and Music, LLC

Elower-Sicilia Productions of Dance and Music, LLC

Elower-Sicilia Productions offer special Hip Hop, Jazz, and Ballet classes with special guests.

OPEN ONLY FOR ELOWER-SICILIA PATRONS
(See Office Manager for prices)

BALLET with THOMAS HANNER
(Private Classes Available)

Performing Experience:

Washington Ballet Company
Maryland Ballet Company
Ohio Ballet Company
Dallas Ballet Company
Cincinnati Ballet Company
San Francisco Ballet Company

Teaching Experience:

Ballet Master, Berks Ballet Theatre, Reading Pennsylvania
National Ballet of New Jersey
Pennsylvania Ballet Theatre (master classes)

Awards and Recognitions:

Selected to perform the Grand Pas de Quatre from Nutcracker in the Texas State Celebration in honer of former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1977
Ford Foundation Grant for ballet training at School of American Ballet, 1970-1973
Solo Shield, Royal Academy of Dance Highest Examination, 1969
Selected as the only boy to appear with Bolshoi Ballet Company in its U.S. tour, 1965

Staging Experience:

Pas de Quatre for Lancaster Ballet, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Swan Lake (2nd act) for Ballet Theatre of Annapolis
Annual production of Nutcracker, Coppelia, Les Sylphides and Pas de Quatre for Mount Vernon Ballet Company, Baltimore, Maryland

HIP HOP with MARK BURKE

Choreography:

NBA Phoenix Suns Dance Team
"Seven Melkers" European Tour
"Nsync" American and European Tours
"Nsync" European Tour
"C-Note" American Tour
"Innosense" American Showcase

Experience:

8 years of Hip Hop/Breakdancing
7 years of Jazz
6 years of Ballet

Mark comes to Thurmont from Los Angeles, California.

THE CLIFTON DUO
KEITH & AUTUMN CLIFTON KEITH

Choreography Credits:

"Arsenio Hall";
"Cameo";
"Star Search" winners;
"Miss California 1991 & 2000";
"Anything Goes";
Music Videos;
Musicals.

Teaching Credits:

LA DanceForce (Co-owner);
Dance Masters of America;
Dance In Action;
Texas Association Teachers of Dance;
The New Zealand Association of Modern Dance;
Tony Tee's Japan Convention.

AUTUMN

Autumn has been trained in dance on both the East and West coast. From the Pennsylvania Ballet for three, summer intensive programs, to a full year scholarship at the EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles. She now resides in New York City and is preparing for her second year dancing in "The Radio City Christmas Spectacular".

Professional Credits:

"Gypsy" with Bette Midler;
A featured dancer in the "Miss California" Pageant 2000;
Many industrials including Nokia, Fugisawa, and IBEW;
Childrens areobic videos;
Several years in "The Glory of Christmas" and "Glory of Easter" at the Crystal Cathedral.

MODERN DANCE with LISA LOVELACE
Lisa Lovelace received her MFA in Choreography and Performance from Temple University, where she also served as part-time faculty. She is currently a co-director of Sacred Ways Dance Company and she has performed with Ann Vachon/Dance Conduit, Danceteller, and Brandi Floreen and Dancers.

As an independent choreographer, she was a PIAIS winner in 1995 and '97, and was commissioned to create works for Allentown's Mayfair-Dance and Sculpture in the Part in 1994, '95, and '96. Lisa was a teaching artist for the Institute for Arts in Education for six years, teaches at Feet First Studio in Phoenixville, gives master classes and teaches movement for opera singers at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Lisa is the recipient of the 1999 Emerging Choreographers Grant from the PA council of the Arts and the 1998 Ellen Forman Memorial Scholarship Award. She is currently working on a dance series based on her life experience called It's a Suite Life.