Elisabeth Martin is a native of Bloomington, Indiana. She started her training in the Indiana University Pre-College Ballet Program under the direction of Doricha Sales. She attended high school at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass. She then returned to the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for college. In her time at IU, she has performed in a variety of productions, including Agnes De Mille’s Rodeo, Balanchine’s Serenade and Rubies, Dwight Rhoden’s Dear Frédéric, as Lead Snowflake, Lead Spanish and Lead Mirliton in The Nutcracker, and as a soloist in Balanchine’s Who Cares?.
She was an award recipient in the Bloomington Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters competition. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance with an Outside Field in Exercise Science and a Minor in Mathematics. She danced with the Rochester City Ballet after school, during which she has performed numerous roles such as Christmas Spirit, Italian soloist, and Mirliton soloist, in The Nutcracker. She danced in RCB’s premier of Cityscapes, and Bill Evans new work For Tim, along with Balanchine’s Serenade. She also performed with the company in their recent debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
She choreographed and danced in the music video for Rochester band Routine Involvements, and The Finger Lakes Opera Company’s premier performance of Carmen. She was part of the short film, Valentine, by Nagisa Kodama featuring Leslie Browne. She danced in NYCFW for designer Cristina Ruales, was a featured artist with the MovementBites project, worked with choreographer Sydney Schiff, Victoria Ballet Theater, was a soloist with Ballets with a Twist in NYC, and a soloist with Morales Dance. Through out the 2017-2018 season with Brandon Ballet as a guest principal artist. She has gone on to preform for Max Stone, Jacob Taylor, and James Kinney for who she acted as Dancer Captain.