MORE THAN DANCE.
Dr. Lisa creates happy, healthy athletes with extraordinary creative vision.
Her mission? To equip today's youth with the skills and confidence to conquer the world.
DANCE PRESCRIPTION 2025 auditions
Audition for the 2025 DANCE PRESCRIPTION Program NOW!
Dr. Lisa
Dr. Lisa Ellis is a pioneer in worldwide jazz technique. With a focus on injury prevention, she teaches dancers to love themselves and celebrate the incredible feats their bodies are able to perform.
As well as running her DANCE PRESCRIPTION program based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Lisa tours nationally and internationally with her Just What The Doctor Ordered Workshops. These popular masterclasses focus on understanding the anatomy, psychology and physiology of dance in order to fast track dancers' successes in a supportive and encouraging environment.
When she's not working closely with the youth of today, Dr. Lisa Ellis can be found working full time as a doctor at a metropolitan Melbourne hospital.
The Lab Assistants
Dr. Lisa handpicks dancers she trains through her DANCE PRESCRIPTION program to accompany her at her Just What The Doctor Ordered Workshops. These Assistants get flown around the world by Dr. Lisa to meet different dance communities and inspire and connect with dancers from all backgrounds.
The current Just What The Doctor Ordered assistants are Desert, Laces, Pretzel and Tabby.
WORKSHOPS
open workshops
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!
Dr. Lisa’s workshops are world famous for providing expert training and tools in a fun, fast paced learning environment, catering for all ages and abilities from 6yrs to 25yrs.
THE LET’S GET FLEXIBLE WORKSHOP!
This workshop will focus on FLEXIBILITY! What is it? How do you improve it? How far is too far? And what are the secrets to safely achieving flexibility FAST?! Dr. Lisa will take the dancers on an expedition to explore their strengths and weaknesses and to target their problem areas with single minded precision!
THE SECRET TO TURNS WORKSHOP!
IT'S TIME TO GET THE CONFIDENCE IN TURNS THAT YOU DESERVE!
For years you've been asking for Dr. Lisa's pirouette secrets, for her secret algorithm that has helped hundreds of dancers to increase their pirouettes and is guaranteed to help you smash your pirouette goals - and finally, it's here: Dr. Lisa's The Secret To Turns Workshops is one of her most popular workshops, designed to break down multiple pirouettes into achievable chunks that just.make.sense!
This workshop will focus on PIROUETTES! What are the most important ingredients? How do you analyse your own turns? Exactly what do you practice to increase your turns instantly? If you thought you knew how to spot, think again! Dr. Lisa will take the dancers on an expedition to explore their strengths and weaknesses in their turns and to target their problem areas with single minded precision!
THE LEGS AND EXTENSIONS WORKSHOP!
This workshop will focus on how to blast your audience away with killer kicks and extensions! Dr. Lisa will teach you how to show off the incredible legs you already have, no matter what your flexibility level, and teach you all the best drills for getting your extension and lines where you want them to be! All of the secret tips and drills which have helped the DANCE PRESCRIPTION team to get their legs up high and hold them there will be revealed!
THE EXPLOSIVE JUMPS WORKSHOP!
This workshop is designed to teach dancers how to fly! Students all over the world have been desperate to learn how the DANCE PRESCRIPTION athletes have achieved such absolutely incredible jumps! We're talking side leaps, tilt jumps, firebirds and so many more! Workshop participants will not only learn how to execute each leap safely but also learn the strengthening exercises used to condition DANCE PRESCRIPTION dancers so their muscles are ready and firing when they need them! Step by step, Dr. Lisa will teach your dancers how to fly higher than they ever imagined!
THE IMPROVISATION NATION WORKSHOP!
It's about time we turned Australia into the IMPROVISATION NATION! This workshop has been created due to popular demand - improvisation is a vital skill for a dancer and too often athletes have never been taught how to do it!
This workshop will focus on breaking down the skills needed for killer impro and practicing each one to give your dancer the tools for head-turning improvisation. Focus will be on building confidence, artistry and musicality to enhance not only impro but choreographic skills, performance quality and self-belief. Get ready to get really REALLY good at Impro!
WORKSHOP TOURS
AUSTRALIA
THE HOME COUNTRY.
Dr. Lisa Ellis travels all over the great country Down Under every week to deliver her DANCE PRESCRIPTION Workshops. Cities visited so far for workshops include Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Albury, Wangaratta, Bargara, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Hervey Bay, Noosa, The Sunshine Coast, The Gold Coast and of course Melbourne.
If you would like to get Dr. Lisa in to your studio to blow your dancer's minds click the button below!
U. S. A. & Canada
THE HOLY GRAIL.
Dr. Lisa is currently planning a tour of North America for 2024.
Bookings are now open - if you are interested in getting Dr. Lisa in to your studio, please click the button below!
upcoming workshops
Upcoming open workshops can be found on this website, but if you’re after a studio-hosted or ‘closed’ workshop, just get in touch with Dr. Lisa and she can give you all the info you need!
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