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Alice Ivy Elliott - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Alice Ivy Elliott
- Alice Ivy Elliott (14 October 1950 – 3 February 2015) was a ballet teacher and choreographer of Ghanaian descent. She was born into the royal household of the Omanhene of Sefwi Bekwai and given her cultural name Awuraba Ama Samma. After a brief education in Ghana, she travelled with her father John Banks Elliott who was appointed as Ghana’s first Ambassador to Moscow from 1960 to 1966.
- In Moscow she entered the Bolshoi Ballet School.
- After finishing school, she performed a few character parts at the Bolshoi Theatre itself.
- She however opted to graduate as a ballet instructor. She came to the United Kingdom and worked with a number of dance companies including the Redroofs Theatre School for the Performing Arts in Maidenhead, the Central School of Ballet in London and Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden.
- She later set up her own ballet school in Maidenhead.
- While working in London, she was spotted by the Artistic Director, of The Australian Ballet for her talent in the arts and gained a contract to teach and direct ballet in Melbourne, Australia. During her 30-year career, she worked with opera and ballet companies throughout the world, supporting various artistic directors on numerous productions as their répétiteur.
- Her talent as a répétiteur earned her a worldwide recognition.
- She travelled the world teaching and demonstrating Russian classical ballet in such places as the United Kingdom, United States of America, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Chile, Greece and Egypt, but to name a few. In association with numerous productions she often worked seasons with companies.
- Some of these include: Ballet Rambert, The American Ballet Theatre, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, The Goteborg Opera & Ballet, La Scala Theatre Ballet, Hawaii State Ballet, Alberta Ballet Company, The Cairo Opera Ballet Company, Centro de Danza y Arte de Madrid, British Columbia Ballet BC. She reached the apex of her career and aspiration when she was contracted to teach at the Zurich Opera House, where her partnership with the artistic director/choreographer Uwe Scholz became legendary. She moved to Greece and in 2001 she staged her favourite ballet, Marius Petipa’s La Bayadère for the Greek National Opera.
- The scene The Kingdom of the Shades produced much acclamation.
- Under the auspices of the Arts Council of Greece, she directed a company of dancers from Athens to Egypt where the artistic community of Egypt personally acclaimed her. Alice Elliot’s lifelong desire was to integrate the Ghanaian dance of "Adowa" with classical ballet.
- To achieve this objective, she enrolled at The University of Ghana, School of Performing Arts.
- Although she did not produce this artistic work of art on the worldwide dance arena in her lifetime, she will be forever remembered by the artistic community around the world, her friends and family.
