Biography

A California native, Ellenore Scott grew up dancing under the direction of Ruth Fisher and her own mother, Michelle Burkhart, at Dancenter, a local dance school offering a diverse class schedule introducing Ellenore to hip hop, ballet, jazz, tap, modern and choreography. Ellenore then became a dance instructor for 3 years at Dancenter while she joined the Santa Cruz Ballet Theater Company. Moving to New York in pursuit of a professional dance career, Ellenore was accepted into Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School as a dance major and became a scholarship student in the Fellowship program at The Ailey School. Ellenore attended dance programs at American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem on scholarship, The Juilliard School, Joffrey Ballet, Complexion on scholarship and TAKE dance. While in school, Ellenore was working with choreographers such as Earl Mosley, Chrisitian Von Howard, Nathan Trice, Pedro Ruiz, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Jessica Lang to name a few. In 2006, Ellenore received the opportunity to assist choreographer Earl Mosley on setting "Saddle Up!" on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In 2007, Ellenore became a company member of both the Von Howard Project and nathantrice/RITUALS. Ellenore has since been Rehearsal Director and Assistant to the Choreographer for Nathan Trice in setting works on the students at LaGuardia High School. In 2008, Ellenore graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & Performing Arts with Honors and received Honorable Mention and New York Regional Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. After graduation, Ellenore signed on to be a part of the world premier work entitled "The Only Tribe", conceived by sculptor Roland Gebhardt and choreographed by Peter Kyle. Ellenore also serves as the Board President for Spectrum Equality Arts Inc., a New York based arts consulting firm dedicated to culturally specific artists. In 2009, Ellenore has performed with emerging choreographer Jill Sigman with jillsigman/thinkdance, as well as Pedro Ruiz for the Latin Choreographers Festival. She was a Finalist on the prime time television show "So You Think You Can Dance" and became America's 4th Favorite Dancer. Since then, she has performed with Sonya Tayeh at the APAP Conference in New York City, a performance for dance presents from across the country. She also has signed with MSA Talent Agency of New York City, under the direction of Lucille DiCampli. She is very happy with what has happened in her life and looks forward to what's next.