ella cumberland-clark

Ella is a Carousel graduate and joined our teaching team in 2023. She is currently in her third year at the University of Guelph studying Bio-Medical Science. Ella has completed her Advanced 2 RAD ballet exam and has received multiple awards including Carousel’s Madeleine Paterson-Watt Memorial Dance Award. She has performed all around the world participating in the Dance and the Child International (daCi) Conference held in Australia. Ella was a member of the daCi Springboard committee working on the 2022 conference in Toronto and the 2024 conference held in Slovenia. Ella is very involved in Carousel's Dance for Everybody programs as well as the Carousel Theatre Company. She has trained with the Alberta Ballet School, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Arts Umbrella & the Royal Academy of Dance in their summer programs. Currently, Ella is dancing with Canadian artist and choreographer David Earle alongside his company Dancetheatre David Earle.  Ella is excited to be teaching modern dance classes at Carousel this year!