Eliska Mayer has been an international dancer,teacher, actor, designer, director and choreographer for over 40 years. Her dance training started in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Prague Conservatory of Music and Dance, where she obtained certification in pedagogue for ballet, modern, and character dance as well as ballet theory and history of dance. Ms. Mayer’s professional dance career began at the National Theatre in Prague, where she danced as a soloist and studied with Natalia Dudinska, Alicia Alonso, Boris Bregvadze, Ctibor Turba, and Marcel Marceau. Later she became a principal dancer with the prestigious Fialka Mime Company, in Prague, CZ, where she was also appointed as modern dance mistress.
Along with an extensive dance background, Ms. Mayer has acted in leading roles for theatre, television, radio and film and directed and designed for theatre. She was a full-time professor and chair for the Department of Movement and Object Theater the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague (AMU), Czech Republic.
She has taught professional dancers, actors and directors at theatre and mime festivals in France, Germany and the Netherlands.In the U.S. she’s been on faculties of Wayne State University, where she was the recipient of 2003 Copper Foot Award for creativity of WSU, American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, and is currently on faculty at Marygrove College.
