The Scott-Ellis School of Irish Dance, encouraging excellence in Irish Dance education and entertainment.
Named in honor of her Irish great-grandmother, Katie Scott, the Scott-Ellis School is dedicated to teaching dancers and future dance teachers. Founder and teacher Wendy Ellis Windsor-Hashiguchi has been dancing nearly all her life in styles ranging from ballet and tap to Bulgarian and Turkish. For nearly eight years, she competed in Scottish highland dancing, reaching and winning at the championship level. She has taught Irish step, céilí, and set dancing for several years now, having worked with such former world championship dancers as Michael Smith, Bill Maple, Deirdre Goulding, Donny Golden (Riverdance star Jean Butler's teacher), Eimear Ni Mhaoileadigh, and Kevin Broesler, as well as excellent traditional dancers of the sean nos or "old style" step dancing such as Patrick O'Dea.
