Sessions
Stillness and Gesture: Blasting Open Gesture Vocabulary for Singers
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM Thu
Meaning What You Move
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM Sat
Michael Ellison, Ph.D., is a guide and integrator who has performed as an actor, singer and dancer, director and choreographer, teacher and body-energy worker for more than 25 years. Using the arts as a vehicle for unlocking human potential, Michael has worked across the United States, from Tanglewood to Los Angeles-based OperaWorks, in Canada, and Denmark to assist people in integrating body, mind, heart and spirit. In The Philippines he coached Lea Salonga (of Miss Saigon fame) and in Manila staged the world premiere of "The Music of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg in Concert." Currently he is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University where he directs, choreographs and heads a program with an emphasis in musical theatre.