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 Deborah Boyle
Artistic Director
Ms. Boyle has been dancing since the age of eight and through the years has studied with many of Greater Boston’s finest teachers. She began her first ten years of training with Ms. Shirley Terrill and expanded her studies with many of Boston’s most prestigious dance educators at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston Repertory Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Boston, Bay State Ballet Theater School and the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. She is a former member of the Merrimack Valley Ballet Company and Bay State Ballet Theatre Company and has danced roles in productions such as Les Sylphides, Gaiette Parisienne, Hoedown, and Swan Lake.
Ms. Boyle’s teaching career has now spanned nearly two decades. She continues her training as both dancer and teacher and has attended classes, workshops and seminars with nationally renowned professionals such as David Howard, Finis Jhung, Leslie Browne, Susan Jaffe, Sean Lavery, and John Meehan to name a few. Ms. Boyle has studied with the Royal Academy of Dancing, is an affiliate of the American Academy of Ballet, a member in good standing of Dance Masters of America, Chapter #5, and is certified by test to teach.
In addition to her dance qualifications, Ms. Boyle holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology as well as a Massachusetts Certification in Education.
 Audra Carabetta
Instructor
Audra has pursued her love of dance by studying a variety of dance forms including ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, modern, baroque, and renaissance dance. She has studied with the Joffrey Ballet, Pioneer Valley Ballet, Five College Dance Department, Marcus Schulkind and Brian Crabtree as well as many other teachers around the world. She currently performs with several companies including Brian Crabtree and Dancers, the Ken Purse Baroque Company and the Boston Early Music Festival as well as with choreographers such as Carol Sommers, Kelly Edwards, Jodi Waber and Robin Reese. Audra has taught students of all ages and levels in many dance programs from private studios to public school systems as well as at the college level. Ballet Arts Center is happy to have Audra return after welcoming her to its staff in 1999.
Lorraine
Chapman
Instructor
Lorraine Chapman, one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To
Watch” in 2008, has danced with Eliot Feld Ballets/NY and Ballet
British Columbia under the artistic direction of Balanchine muse
Patricia Neary, as well as for several Boston-based
choreographers including Amy Spencer, Richard Colton, Diane
Arvanites-Noya, Jose Mateo, and Marcus Schulkind. She received
her training at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and L’Ecole
Superieure De Danse Du Quebec as well as from Boston veterans
Francis Kotelly and Samuel Kurkjian. As an independent
choreographer Lorraine has created works for the Northwest New
Works Festival in Seattle at On The Boards-Behnke Center and the
Bessie Schonberg Residency at The Yard. Ms. Chapman received a
commission from Alberta Ballet for their Festival of New Works:
Arias 2004 where she shared the bill with internationally
acclaimed solo artist Margie Gillis and more recently from
Festival Ballet of Providence for Up Close On Hope. Amy Spencer
and Richard Colton awarded Lorraine with a Choreographer’s
Project Fellowship for Summer Stages Dance 2005, and for 2008
she is the recipient of their Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov
Arts Center Residency Project.
LCTC (www.lorrainechapman.org)
is currently in its sixth year, and one of the most recognized
dance companies in the Boston area. Since its’ official
inception in November 2002, LCTC has been chosen for several
exciting productions including Tens The Limit 2003 and 2005,
Dance Straight Up! 2004 and 2006, Dancing Nor’easters’ 8th
International Festival of Arts & Ideas New Haven, and Soaking
Wet 6 produced in NYC by David Parker of David Parker & The Bang
Group. LCTC has received grants from LEF Foundation New
England's Contemporary Work Fund and the Massachusetts Cultural
Council. LCTC was presented in 2008 by World Music/CRASHarts,
Live For $5 at the Stonington Opera House in Maine, Yard Stars
Return at The Yard, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Inside/Out, and the
Yes, Virginia - Dance Festival in Richmond.
Lorraine most recently co-created “The Disappearing Woman” for
Summer Stages Dance at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
and coming up November 5-8 LCTC will be doing Soaking Wet 9 at
the West End Theater in NYC.
Lorraine is the Assistant Director of the "Track A" program at
BAC and has been on the faculty since 1995.
Marianne Harkless
Instructor
Marianne Harkless danced with the Art of Black Dance & Music, Ballet Theatre of Boston, Danny Sloan Dance Company, Dance Collective, Brasiliero, Inc., Grupo Bandança Afro-Brazilian Dancers & Drummers, Under the Sun Dance & Drum, the Spirit of Africa, Impulse Dance Company and others. She has taught dance at Radcliffe College, Boston University, Dean College School of Dance, Wellesley College, and at public schools, private schools and dance studios in the greater Boston area. She has guest taught and performed in Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New York, Oregon and in France, Switzerland and Jamaica.
Marianne was a 1996 recipient of the Dance Belt Award and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Dance Alliance. She currently teaches at Wellesley College, the Cambridge School of Weston, Shady Hill School, Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester, Generation Excel, and the Dance Complex and choreographs and performs with Beat Tree and Benkadi dance companies in Cambridge.
Stephanie Heroux
Instructor
Stephanie has studied dance extensively across New England and New York, including The School at Jacob’s Pillow’s elite Musical Theatre Program, studying with Jazz Master Matt Mattox and Chet Walker of Fosse fame. She has performed with the The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, ACE Entertainment, and Lorraine Chapman The Company. As a dancer and dance captain aboard the Sovereign of the Seas for Royal Caribbean International, her cast was chosen to debut a new evening-length production show and two signature performance pieces that were subsequently installed fleet-wide. She also participated in the launching of their land-based, corporate productions, performing for Vaction.com’s largest annual convention in Disney World.
In 2005 Stephanie founded Jazz Inc. The company, specializing in concert jazz dance, musical theatre, and corporate theatre, has performed for 28 degrees, Hilton Hotels, Saks, Bacardi, Pearl Vodka, The Webster Company, and the Boston Bruins. She has also choreographed productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Wiz, and Fame for local theatre companies. Stephanie regularly teaches company class and choreographs for Harvard University’s Mainly Jazz Company. She has also taught master classes and workshops for Suskind Young at Arts, Brandeis University, and The Boston Ballet School. Currently, Stephanie is on faculty at the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, the Jeannette Neill Children’s Dance Program, Emerson College, and Ballet Arts Center. She also holds a B.A. from Boston University in English Literature and Business Administration.
 Liliana Kualapai
Instructor
Liliana's training reaches from the Pacific to the Atlantic. She studied tap, ballet, jazz and musical theater in Hawaii, California, New York, and later in Nebraska where she opened the Bennet Dance Center and co-founded the Lincoln Tap Force. She came to the Northeast to attend Brandeis University
where she earned her B.A. in Theater Arts. She has choreographed extensively in the Midwest and Massachusetts, in both musical theater and competitive dance venues.
Liliana joined the BACW faculty in 2003. She is also currently a private tap coach and trainer as well as a guest artist for dance programs throughout the greater Boston area. In August of 2006, Liliana opened Downtown Dancewear, a specialty dance store in Lowell, MA.
Cheryl Mantia
Instructor
Cheryl teaches jazz, ballet, tap, and hip-hop to students of all ages. She received her dance training from Boston Ballet and The Performing Arts Unlimited. Her performance experience includes Boston Ballet's "The Nutcracker", "Sleeping Beauty", and "A Midsummer Nights Dream," as well as performances with Boston College Dance Ensemble, Boston College Dance Team, The Performing Arts Unlimited, and The Pingree School. Cheryl also appeared in several commercials for Disney's Aladdin. Her choreography experience includes dance productions for Boston College and several Boston area dance studios. She has also choreographed for high school musical productions, junior high school cheerleading competitions, and middle school dance productions. Cheryl has been teaching at BAC since 2002.
Bill
McLaughlin
Guest Choreographer
Bill McGlaughlin has performed with Impulse Dance Company, Concert Dance Company of Boston, Prometheus Dance Theater, Marcus Schulkind, Granite State Ballet, and Boston Dance Collective. While working with these copanies Bill performed the choreography of Fred Benjamin, Donald Byrd, Bebe MMiller, Dwight Rhoden and Randy Warshaw to name a few. He has choreographed and taught for The Boston Conservatory, The Jeanette Neil Dance Studio, The Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts and Boston Ballet's Summer intensive. Bill also served as Co-Artistic Director, Artistic Director and is now the Coordinator of Boston Dance Collective's Summer Outreach Program. Bill has appeared in and/or choreographed live/video industrials and commercials for such corporations as Dunkin Donuts, Trak Skis, puma, Party Lite, Honeywell Bull, Parachute Clothing, Frank Zavier, David Nicholas makeup, EMC and Dae Woo. Has has also appeared in opening acts for The Pointer Sisters, Rita Moreno, Jennifer Holliday and Harry Connick, Jr. His self-produced works include his own one-man show, Boogieman, Famine Tales and several other collaborate productions.
Scott Ranagan
Instructor
Scott received his training at Boston Ballet under the direction of E. Virginia Williams and with the Washington Ballet. he is the owner and director of the Bay State Ballet Theater Ballet School and co-founder and choreographer of Dance Prism of Concord, MA. He has danced with several professional companies, including Boston Ballet, Washington Ballet and North American Ballet, to name a few. Scott has been a BAC faculty member since its inception in 1990.
Jennifer Hamilton
Instructor
Bio not available.
Heejin
Lee
Instructor
Bio not available.
Marcia Rotondo
Instructor
Bio not available.
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