Jerome Robbins' NY Export: Opus Jazz the Film

Crew

Ellen Bar ,

Ellen Bar attended the School of American Ballet from the age of eight and was asked to join the New York City Ballet in 1998. Ellen has danced featured roles including Agon, The Four Temperaments, Episodes, and Tschaikovsky Suite #3 as well as Robbins’ works The Cage, West Side Story Suite, and Antique Epigraphs. She was promoted to Soloist in 2006. Ellen has also performed with Morriss Center Dance in East Hampton and Benjamin Millepied’s Danses Concertantes in Lyon and Stockholm and at the Joyce Theater here in New York. Ellen danced as a child Candy Cane in Emile Ardolino’s The Nutcracker (with New York City Ballet), in the feature film Center Stage, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and as an animated character in Barbie of Swan Lake. Ellen has an Associate’s Degree in Business from Penn State University and is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree at Columbia University. Her dance writing has been published in Ballet Review and The Columbia Observer. Like Sean, Ellen was part of the original cast of the revival of Opus Jazz. Together she and Sean have developed, funded and produced the project since its inception in 2005.