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We have good news! Elaine Gardner is continuing her class offerings throughout August. We love having her here growing our Summer class schedule.

Elaine Gardner will be offering a Free Contemporary Ballet class on Tuesday, August 11 from 7-8:15 pm.

Contemporary Ballet focuses on musicality, alignment, and artistic expressive dynamics used to enhance contemporary ballet technique.

She will also be teaching the grounding somatic based class Happy Hour from 5-6:00 pm on Tuesday, August 11. This class is $16 and it is a movement meditation series throughout August. This class is perfect for all levels and backgrounds in a movement practice.

Classes will be held at Lisa Taylor Academy of Ballet:

97 North Park Avenue - near Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY
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Elaine will be teaching a Graham Workshop on Saturday August 29 from 2:45-4:15 pm. MORE IMFO TO COME!

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A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Elaine Gardner studied ballet and modern dance in Syracuse, Phoenix, Los Angeles, London, Boston and New York. She performed in contemporary dances by Margo Sappington, Bill Evans, Charles Weidman, Donald Byrd, Kei Takei, Doris Humphrey and Laura Dean as a member of the Los Angeles-based touring repertory company Dance/L.A. from 1978 to 1980. In 1980, while living in Los Angeles, she founded Pick of the Crop Dance, a contemporary repertory company and in 1982 she re-established the company with her husband Curt Steinzor in Buffalo. Since then, she has performed individually and with the company throughout the northeastern United States as well as in Scotland and Latvia, Italy and Finland creating a repertory of over 100 pieces as well as commissioning works by guest choreographers. Among the artists who have created works for the company are Colin Connor, Richard Colton, Terry Creach, Laura Dean, Itzik Galili, Gail Gilbert, Linda Kent, Jessica Lang, Kun Yang Lin, Peter Pucci, Nicholas Rodriguez, Marcus Schulkind, and Kevin Wynn. Gardner has served as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program, NYFA and for local arts councils. She teaches contemporary dance, ballet, yoga and choreography at Nichols School in Buffalo, where she also directs the Nichols Dance Ensemble.https://conta.cc/4wmASFT

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Take a FREE "Happy Hour" class with Elaine Gardner. It is on Tuesday from 5-6:00 pm on July 28 at 97 North Park Avenue in Buffalo near Hertel.

Take a FREE "Happy Hour" class with Elaine Gardner. It is on Tuesday from 5-6:00 pm on July 28 at 97 North Park Avenue in Buffalo near Hertel. https://conta.cc/3RykDXZ

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