Building a Strong Foundation

Workshop with Elise McGrenera

This class with Elise will focus on grounding and foundational techniques that will help you grow more confident in your dancing!

Elise McGrenera mit Mittelscheitel und langen, schwarzen, welligen, offenen Haaren. Sie trägt ein weißes Top. Hinter ihr sind verschwommen Blätter einer Pflanze zu sehen.

Elise McGrenera

Elise McGrenera is a tap dancer from Vancouver, Canada. She has traveled around the world to participate in dance festivals in Vancouver, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Stockholm where she trained with some of the masters in tap dance. Elise is an alumna of the School at Jacob's Pillow where she was accepted into the 2019 tap dance program and graduated with the Professional Advancement in Dance Award. She was a featured dancer in the 2019 Vancouver premier of Danny Nielsen’s On Foot as well as both the 2021 and 2022 productions of Jeffrey Dawson and Friends presented by the Vancouver Tap Dance Society. In 2022, Elise co-founded the tap dance collective Boys’ Club which was invited to showcase their first full-length work throughout Europe. Most recently, Elise joined Danny Nielsen’s cast of On Foot as a principal dancer for a BC tour.