Project Oak Dance Training

01/03/2022

Do you want to give your child top-notch dance training but are you concerned about Covid-19 exposure? Project Oak is now offering private and small-group performing arts lessons in the security and comfort of your home in NJ!*
Your Broadway-veteran teacher is fully-vaccinated, boosted, masked, tests regularly and has a car to teach your kids and/or their pod training of your choice: Creative Movement, Ballet, Pre-Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Theater Dance and Exploratory Voice.

*Servicing Weehawken, Edgewater, West New York, North Bergen, Fort Lee, Port Imperial, Hoboken, Union City and Jersey City.

Availability:
Monday 10AM-2PM
Tuesday 10AM-1:30PM
Thursday 10-2:30PM
Friday 10AM-7PM
Sundays 3PM-6PM

Get in touch! Call (917) 991-9556 or email [email protected].

10/05/2016

I am giving some love to the awesome trio of triple threat ladies (of course it's a trio!) at www.pickwyck.com for their super cool website full of uniquely fascinating interviews of triple threat performers. It features tales and perspectives of people working and thriving in the theater community.

I had the pleasure of interviewing with founder Kylie Wyman at The Pickwick this year. The last question she asked:

Q. What is one piece of advice you would give to aspiring performers?

A. There are many definitions of success. There are many roads to success. Your path is unique. You are unique. Scarcity is a myth. You are important. You are worthy. If the fire is within, no rain will extinguish that. Be who you need to be, but do it to empower someone else. Nothing and no one can stop you if you don't.

*I will be teaching my second 6-week ballet workshop at Dance Molinari starting this Thursday, October 6, 5-6PM. I am still teaching privately while enjoying the last couple of months with the silly and vibrant cast of Something Rotten! at The St. James. Feel free to message me if you are interested in private instruction!

A new theatre blog featuring interviews & reviews.

02/22/2015

Did you know that Oak trees don't bear fruit (the acorn) until they are 20-50 years old? WHATEVER YOUR MISSION, NURTURE IT. Project Oak Dance Training congratulates three students who have booked roles this past month: Stephanie, Mary, and Christina!

12/12/2014

IN EVERY ACORN LIES A BLUEPRINT FOR AN OAK TREE. Project Oak is private & personal dance training empowering the artist to achieve his/her highest self.
Be BOLD.
Be BRAVE.
Dare GREATLY.
EXPAND. EMPOWER. INSPIRE.
I am Elizabeth Earley and Project Oak is my forum for empowering performing artists through dance instruction to realize their unimagined potential by expanding their limitations and daring to be more than ever before. Performing artists are called to raise spiritual vibrations and deliver seismic messages to humanity. I exist to empower fellow artists, foster the abilities within them to tell stories through dance, and to inspire artists to inspire others. I believe through being bold, brave, and daring greatly, artists expand their capabilities and empower themselves to achieve so they can inspire others. My love of telling stories through dance was born at a very young age, but my dream of enabling fellow artists to dance has grown very strong in the last few years. Though I focus on musical theater and spend much of my time singing and acting, my knack for making ballet technique accessible drives much of my teaching as I see it as the most important base for movement. I then translate this to theatre dance, jazz dance, and tap dance giving the artist the opportunity to experience dance as a powerful tool working for her/him, not against her/him.

A specialty of mine is speaking "singer-language" to singers while clearly and concisely hacking into dance technique through physics explained accessibly. I am driven by establishing 100% healthy and efficient use of energy in the body and by creating purely-positive working environment in the student's mind and in the dance studio. I am, absolutely, a self-proclaimed nerd who gets high on seeing my students' confidence grow, their preconceived-assumptions (limits) about themselves in dance dissolve and by watching my students make sense of why they can now do things they never thought they could do. I champion my students to champion themselves.

Some Professional Credits include:
Something Rotten (Broadway Original Cast)
Dance Captaining 14 shows to date including 3 long-running tours:
1st National Mary Poppins-Dance Capt./Swing
2nd National Mary Poppins-Dance Capt./Swing
Whistle Down the Wind-Dance Capt./Swing
(see www.elizabethearley.com for more)

Education:
B.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (CAP21, ETW, The Classical Studio)
Boston Ballet
Washington Ballet
Joffrey Ballet
Paul Taylor Dance
International Ballet Theatre
Ballet Theatre Pennsylvania
STEPS on Broadway
Harrisburg Ballet
Donna Muzio's The Dance Center
Harrison's Dance Studio

Some Dance Teaching Credits:
1st National Mary Poppins Tour
2nd National Mary Poppins Tour
Whistle Down the Wind
Broadway Connection (across the USA)
Academy of Dance Arts (Lebanon, NJ)
The Dance Center (West Chester, PA)
Dance Etc. (Newtown, CT)

Elizabeth had a jolly holiday (well, it’s true!) playing “Mary” in Mary Poppins this summer at The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival and a separate production at The Forestburgh Playhouse. Elizabeth has been nominated for a SALT Award (Syracuse Area Live Theater) in the category “Leading Actress…