Photo by RJ Muna courtesy of Liss Fain Dance
about the workshop:
Northeast Arts is thrilled to welcome Elena Martins for a special jazz workshop. Elena Martins' class is geared towards the intermediate/advanced dancer. Class features a full body warm up focused on technique and strength training. The remainder of class is dedicated towards moving through space with fun yet challenging exercises across the floor, leading into phrase work. The choreography is driven by music rather than counts, allowing dancers to explore musicality, syncopation, and dynamic shifts. Elena’s style is a smooth, flowing, expansive, rhythmic, and groovy mix of contemporary, jazz, and ballet. Students will enjoy a complete and enriching personal and collective dance experience.
Join us for this unique opportunity to learn and enjoy dance together.
Tuesday June 9
5:30pm - 7pm
$20
about the artist:
Elena Martins is a professional dancer and dance educator from Boston, MA. She received her early training at Donna Miceli Dance Center and The Academy of Ballet Arts before graduating from SUNY Buffalo with a BA in dance and a minor in speech and hearing sciences. Elena's performance career spans national and international stages, with experience in dance companies on both coasts. These include Prometheus Dance and Lorraine Chapman The Company (Boston); Robert Moses’ KIN, Liss Fain Dance, LEVYdance, Sarah Berges Dance, Axis Dance Company, West Edge Opera, and Bellwether Dance Project (San Francisco Bay Area), among others. She has had the privilege of being on faculty at prestigious institutions such as The School of Classical Ballet (Cambridge, MA), Jeannette Neill Dance Studio (Boston, MA), Dana Hall Upper School (Wellesley, MA), Shawl-Anderson Dance Studio (Berkeley, CA), ODC School (San Francisco, CA), The East Bay Center for Performing Arts (Richmond, CA), Piedmont Ballet Academy, and more. elenamartins.com