ELISA CLARK

ELISA CLARK is an award-winning artist, educator, and administrator from the Washington, DC area, who trained at Maryland Youth Ballet, before receiving a BFA from The Juilliard School, under Benjamin Harkarvy. Ms. Clark was a founding member of Robert Battle’s Battleworks Dance Company, where she also served as Company Manager. Additionally, she was a featured member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Mark Morris Dance Group, and performed with Nederlands Dans Theater and The Metropolitan Opera, in works by Jirí Kylián, and Crystal Pite. She has also appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, and acted in several Samuel Beckett plays, directed by Mark Morris for Northern Ireland’s Happy Days Festival. As an educator and mentor, she has taught for the Ailey School/Fordham University, Alabama School of Fine Arts, American Dance Festival, George Mason University, Indiana University, Jacob’s Pillow, Marymount Manhattan College, MOVE NYC, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, New World School of the Arts and is currently on faculty at University of the Arts and Princeton University. As a repetiteur and rehearsal director, she frequently restages the works of Mr. Battle and Mr. Morris, in addition to assisting Mr. Battle with new creations. Ms. Clark is a Princess Grace Award Winner and a Certified Life Coach. Prior to the pandemic, she was dancing alongside Monica Bill Barnes in Happy Hour. She is a Gibney Teaching Artist and will be a Guest Professor at Bard College this Fall.