Elbert Watson is Contributing Artist at the Ellerslie Flower Show 2010.
Elbert Watson is a dancer, choreographer, director, coach, administrator, artistic advisor and teacher. A former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Staatstheater of Kassel, Germany, The Pearl Primus Earth Theater, and The Joan Miller Dance Players, he studied classical ballet at the New York Conservatory of Dance with Vladimir Doukodosky and Nina Stragonova. He has taught at colleges, universities and schools across the nation, and is the former artistic director of the Nanette Bearden Chamber Dance Group and former ballet master of the Virginia Ballet Theater. He has served on the advisory boards of Learning Bridge, the Portsmouth Redevelopment Dance Project, and Young Audiences of Virginia, and has done choreographic collaborations with the Virginia Symphony and the Chrysler
Museum. He received the Norfolk Academy Teacher of the Year Award presented by the Tunstall Student Council in 1996 and received the Lower School Waitzer Award in 2006 (Teacher of the Year). He is currently a member of the Norfolk Commission for Arts and Humanities. He is the founder of the Tidewater Dance Collective and co-founder of the “Kinetics of Stone” project in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the dance master at Norfolk Academy, where he introduces dance not only as an art form, but as a communicative bridge between athletics and academics.