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2009 - Mercedes Ellington Juilliard graduate;
choreographed ten companies of Play On!, from San Diego's Old Globe Theater to
Broadway, and PBS's Great Performances; Choreographed Ambassador Satch, starring
André De Shields, Prince Theater, Philadelphia, Helen Hayes Theater, Nyack, New
York and The Performing Arts Center, White Plains; choreographer of segments of
CTFD Galas 2004 and 2002, at City Center. Directed/staged/produced, Society of
Singers-East, Louis Armstrong Award to Bobby Short at The Pierre; directed and
staged 2001 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Tribute to the Spirit of Harlem;
directed: Four Women and Cotton Club Rhapsody at Club La Mama;
choreographed/directed Mood Ellington featuring André De Shields; appeared in
several segments of Ken Burns' TV documentary, Jazz ; profiled by Dr. Billy
Taylor on CBS Sunday Morning; choreographed sixteen productions at the St. Louis
MUNY; artistic director, BalleTap,USA, aka DancEllington, Inc.(1982-1992);
directed/choreographed Cotton Club Rhapsody at Club La MaMa; hostess of the
Swedish Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall and Sweden; workshop program: Home To
Harlem, for Radio City Music Hall Rockettes; choreographer/performer: Lincoln
Center's Reel To Real Series: Story T'Ellington; choreographer: Yankee Doodle
Boys; Carnegie Hall debut: 1999; Metropolitan Opera House debut: 2002; New York
City Opera debut: 1977; choreographer: George M, for Gay Pride Series;
choreographer: Queen Esther Morrow's Walk Tall Gospel Show- European Tour
2002-2003; Harlem Gospel Singers European Tour 2003-2004; director/choreographer
for In Mahalia's Light, Passage Theater, Trenton, NJ; director/musical staging,
In A Miller/ Basie Mood, at the Lucille Lortel Theater, NYC; choreographer: Talk
of The Town, Bank Street Theater, NYC; choreographer: Crowns, St. Louis Rep and
Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park; Crowns, for Arizona Theater Company etc.;
serves on the Boards of Career Transition For Dancers, The American Tap Dance
Foundation, The New Jersey Tap Ensemble, Board of Governors Friars Club. April
2003, awarded an honorary citizenship of Paris. Currently serving on the TONY
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