About
Ella Rosewood Dance (ERD) is a New York City based dance company that thrives on performance, choreography, and education. ERD has been passionately sharing movement with the community since 2009 when Ella Rosewood formed the company in Madison, WI. In January 2011, ERD relocated to New York City.
“Ms.” - a short film about Ella Rosewood by Walter Zhang.
Ella Rosewood Dance is organized for the purpose of:
Christopher Duggan Photography
Creating and promoting original and highly textured dance artwork by Ella Rosewood;
Preserving historic and seminal modern dance solos through reconstructions and education initiatives;
Performing and producing the above work as well as work that is commissioned and/or collaborative for diverse audiences;
Using movement art experiences, training and critical response interaction to provide educational and artistic opportunities to the community; and
Carrying out all other activities necessary to achieve the above purposes.
Bio
Photo by Alison Graham.
Ella Rosewood (she/her) is a choreographer, performer, educator, entrepreneur, and solo dance preservationist based in NYC. She is the founder and CEO of Crelata®, an on-demand dance education platform aimed at getting more dance in K-12 schools across the USA. Rosewood holds dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Dance and Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s Degree in Dance Education from the Inaugural Cohort of the Lincoln Center Scholars Alternative Certification Program in partnership with the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at Hunter College.
Rosewood's choreography has been seen internationally in Taipei Taiwan, and locally at the Judson Church, 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Secret Theater, Chen Dance Center, Spoke the Hub’s Follies, Green Space, and more. When she first moved to NYC in 2011, she mounted “Second Skin: Seven Solo Dances” at the Merce Cunningham Studio. Her educational initiatives for the project were featured in the Inspiration Issue of Dance Studio Life Magazine.
Rosewood is actively preserving historic solo dances for performance and educational purposes and has works by seminal artists Jane Dudley, Doris Humphrey, Louise Kloepper, Katherine Litz, Sybil Shearer, Anna Sokolow, Helen Tamiris, and Hortense Lieberthal Zera in her repertoire. Rosewood has also performed dances by living choreographers including Douglas Dunn, Heidi Latsky, and Daniel Gwirtzman.
Rosewood works full-time as a dance teacher at a school in NYC. She helped revise the New York City Department of Education Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance and has presented her scholarly research on dance education at National Dance Education Organization conferences. She has continued her teacher education at the Lincoln Center Institute, the Dance Education Labrorory at the 92nd Street Y, and with Anne Green Gilbert. She is also an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
Before graduate school, Rosewood danced with JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s Equus Projects and taught at three dance studios in NYC. For four years she was the Education Associate at New York Live Arts where she managed and taught educational programs for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company as well as organized their educational licensing in addition to coordinating New York Live Arts education initiatives. She is a proud alum of the Dance/NYC Junior Committee.
Fun fact: Rosewood is a lifelong member of Girl Scouts of the USA and earned her Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can receive.