Résumé

Director, Dancer, and Choreographer

Television Appearances in Mexico City and
New York City

• ElsyDance And… – Manhattan Neighborhood Network channel 56 (Time Warner), channel 83 (RCN) and web stream Fridays at 4:30 PM.
• “Conversation
  with Jimmy Fortson,” — Mexico Channel 11; 1987, featuring an interview,
  hosted by Jimmy Fortson with Elsy Contreras, Nuclear Dance, Narciso
  Dead, and Huapango.
• “En Vivo” (“Live”)
  — Mexico Channel 2; 1984, featuring an interview, hosted by Ricardo
  Rocha with Elsy Contreras, La Fortuna and Nuclear
  Dance.
• “6 en Punto” (“6
  O’Clock”) — Mexico Channel 5; 1983, featuring Huapango
  and Drums.
• “River-to-River,”
  42nd Street, New York City Festival — HBO; 1985, featuring Huapango
  and Nuclear Dance.
• “Mexico en la
  Cultura” (“Mexico and Culture”) — Mexico Channel 9; 1985, featuring
  Obsidian Butterfly, by Octavio Paz at the Museo Tamayo,
  choreography by Elsy Contreras and Brian Nissen.
• “Mexico en la
  Cultura” (“Mexico and Culture”) — Mexico Channel 2; 1984, featuring
  Henry Moore at the Museum of Modern Art, choreography
  by Elsy Contreras.
• “24 Horas” (“24
  Hours”) — Mexico Channel 2; 1983, featuring interview, hosted by Jacoba
  Zabludovsky with Elsy Contreras and Drums.
• “Noche a Noche”
  (“Night to Night”) — Mexico Channel 9; 1987, featuring Solo de
  Amor, La Fortuna, and Transmutation Dance
  Theater. Also, in 1982, featuring interview, hosted by Felix
  Cortes Camarillo with Elsy Contreras, Drums; Wind Woman, Sand
  Woman, Free Woman; and Jazz Birds.
• “Lo Mejor de las
  Artes” (“The Best of the Arts”) — Mexico Channel 11: three 60-minute
  specials; In 1985, featuring interview with Elsy Contreras, Elements,
  Temper and Portrait. In 1983, featuring Drums,
  Nuclear Dance, Narciso Dead; Wind Woman, Sand Woman, Free Woman;
  and Moments.
• “Mi Danza” (“My
  Dance”) — Mexico Channel 11, In 1981, 60 Minutes, Written and hosted by Elsy Contreras, featuring
  Drums, Romance, Nuclear Dance, and Wind Woman,
  Sand Woman, Free Woman.

Stage Performances

• St. George Theater 2004, Snowflake, Nutcracker.
• Staten Island Stadium 2003, AmoreDanz, Mrs. Rosemary’s Dance Studios.
• Snug Harbor Cultural
  Center Harmony Street Fair 2001, Staten Island, NY.
• LOTUS Arts
  Center, New York, NY, July 2001, Nuclear Dance
• WestBeth
  Art Gallery, New York, NY
• Merce Cunningham
  Studio, New York, NY
• Gowanus
  Arts Exchange, New York, NY
• United Nations
  40th and 50th Anniversary Celebrations at Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium;
  1985 and 1995, New York, NY
• Off Broadway
  “Festival Latino ’85”; 1985, New York, NY
• Elsy Contreras
  Dance Company conducted performances in Mexico, at theaters;
  museums; Universities, High Schools and Elementary Schools auditoriums;
  outdoor exhibits; cultural fairs; and tours.

Independent
Ballet of Mexico, Founding Member, Dancer and Soloist

• Command Performance
  for Queen Juliana and Royal Family of The Netherlands.
• Toured with company
  to Central and South America, the United States, and Europe.

Moshe Kedem’s Ballet,
Mexico City, Principal Soloist

Official Dance
Company of Mexico, sponsored by the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico
City, Dancer

Ballet Tlachitl
Mexicatl, Director, Dancer, and Choreographer

The New Guardia
directed by Alicia Alonso, Choreographer

Ballet Concierto
of Mexico, Dancer

Sutrana Dance Theatre,
New York City, Principal Soloist

National Company
of Dance, Mexico City, Rehearsal Assistant

Elsy Contreras
choreographed for TV commercials and plays, working with freelance dancers.

• Coordinator of
  Dance, Houses of Culture
• Conducted conferences,
  demonstrations and lectures at elementary schools, high schools, and
  professional schools.
• Cultural TV, Art and Dance Programs.

• Founder and Dance Teacher,
  26 Clinton Ave. Studio, Staten Island, NY.
• Founder and Dance Teacher,
  Academy of Dance, St. Mary’s of the Assumption Parish, Staten Island, NY.
• Classic Ballet Dance Teacher,
  Mrs. Rosemary’s Dance Studios, Staten Island, NY.
• “EducArt Contreras System Workshop,”
  Staten Island Childrens’s Museum, Staten Island, NY
• Master Classes, Moving in Time Dance Studio, Staten Island, NY.
• “EducArt Contreras System Workshop,” for “Teen Night,” YMCA,
  Staten Island, NY.
• Jurist,
  Fifth and Sixth Folk Dance Festivals, Organization Tepeyac, New York, NY.
• Dance Teacher,
  Ballet Tepeyac, New York, NY
• Dance Teacher,
  Times Circle Rehearsal Studio, New York, NY
• Kindergarten
  Teacher, Mexico City School System under the Secretary of Public
  Education.
• Classic
  Ballet and Modern Dance: Mexican Institute of Social Security.
• Contemporary
  Dance: Ballet Folklorico de Mexico.
• Dance for
  Actors: University Theater Center at the National Autonomous
  University of Mexico.
• Graham Technique:
  Academy of Dance at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City.
• Classic
  Ballet, Graham Technique, and Contreras Style: School of Dance,
  of the Department of the Federal District of Mexico City.

Professional
Kindergarten Teacher, National School of Educators, Mexico City

Awarded scholarship
granted by the National Institute of Fine Arts and Jose Limon to study
at the New London, Connecticut School of Dance.

Specialist in: Martha
Graham Technique, Cuban Classical Methodolgy.

Courses: Alvin Ailey, Jazz with Luigi, New York Conservatory
of Dance, Joffrey Ballet School.