Teaching Experience

2024: Bachelor's Diploma in Psychology,  Magna Cum Laude, awarded by California Southern University. 

2024: Westchester Ballet Company: Honoring Elisa Toro Franky in the Benefit Gala, as Exceptional Dancer and Educator.


2024: ballet teacher in Kanyok Arts Initiative, organization in New York that bridges aspiring artists from the studio to the professional stage.

2023 to present: teaching artist in Broadway Bound Dance Center, at Dumont, New Jersey.

2023 to present:  teaching artist in the Community Arts Program Residencies of Ballet Hispánico in New York.

2023 to present: Co-lead teaching artist in Misty Copeland Foundation, organization  in New York that aims to bring greater diversity, equity, and inclusion to dance, especially ballet.

Virtual workshop in Flamenco  and Ballet. February 8 to 12, 2021.

Taught by Elisa Toro Franky and Amilkar Olaya García, founder of @flamenkar.

2018 to present:  teaching artist with Accent Dance NYC at Amani Public Charter School and Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education. 

Also in 2019 Elisa has teached the nurses at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (during the Covid-19 pandemic) .

2018 - to present: teaching artist  in Logrea Dance Academy / Westchester Ballet Company.

 2016-2018:  guest teacher at Brooklyn Ballet.

2016 -2017:  Elisa organizes tango residences at Bronx School for Excellence

2015-2018:  teaching artist in Dance Workshop in New York.

2015: Open World Dance Foundation, New York City. 

Ballet Instructor in the Vaganova method, certified by Open World Dance Foundation.  Diploma given by Professor Ludmila Safronova and Irina Kolpakova (students of Vaganova); Vladilen Semenov, Ekaterina Shchelkanova, and Anton Boytsov

2014 : ballet teaching artist  in Dardo Galleto Studios, In New York