SDCF is starting a bi-monthly online informal gathering for directors and choreographers called First Mondays. With new hosts and topics for each month, First Mondays is an opportunity to gather in community and get to know one another through conversations about different aspects of the craft of directing and choreography.
Our FIRST First Mondays will be hosted by Machel Ross and Ellenore Scott and the conversation for this gathering will center around where inspiration comes from and how aesthetics are formed when working on any artistic project as a director and/or choreographer. This virtual evening on Zoom will consist of discussions as a whole group as well as small breakout rooms around the topic. We hope you will join us!
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June 7th, 7 – 9PM ET
Bios:
Machel Ross is a Dominican American director and creative collaborator based in NYC who specializes in the development of new work and aesthetic world building. She’s developed work with Aziza Barnes (NANA), PigPen Theatre Company (Phantom Folktales), Ellen Winter (This House Is Your Home), and directed the world premiere of Jeremy O. Harris’ Black Exhibition at the Bushwick Starr. She’s worked as an associate for Lileana Blain Cruz (Marys Seacole, The House that Will not Stand), Drew McOnie (King Kong), Lila Neugabauer (Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie, The Antipodes, The Wolves) and Annie Baker. Machel is a 2020 Sundance Theater Lab fellow, a WP Directing Lab fellow, as well as a 2019 grant recipient of the Women’s Fund for Film, TV and Theatre for her short film Signs He Made at Home. Her short premiered this year at the 2021 Slam Dance Film Festival. BFA-NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
Ellenore Scott
Ellenore Scott is a New York–based choreographer and performer who most recently choreographed the Off-Broadway Revival of Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theater. Scott also served as the associate choreographer for Head Over Heels and King Kong on Broadway, and was the assistant choreographer for the Broadway revivals of Cats and Falsettos. She choreographed Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice at Cherry Lane Theater as well as Jeremy O’Harris’ Black Exhibition for The Bushwick Starr. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of ELSCO Dance, a contemporary-fusion dance company. As a performer she was a finalist and an All-Star on the hit television show “So You Think You Can Dance” and has performed on numerous television shows and performed with Janet Jackson. As a TikToker, Ellenore has almost 000,000 followers creating content daily based around dance, lifestyle and anime and recently choreographed the first ever TikTok Musical, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical.