Company Dancers

Boston Dance Company

Melissa Dupuis is currently a junior at Mercyhurst College majoring in Dance. She received her early dance training at Dance Arts Centre under the direction of Jim Caisse. While there, she was a member of the International Showcase Dancers. She received her intensive ballet training from Edra Toth of the New England Ballet, Karen Brown, and from Clyde Nantais and James Reardon of the Boston Dance Company. Her roles have included Arabian, Marzipan, Spanish, Flowers, and Snow in Nutcracker. She has also performed the pas de deux from Le Corsaire, and Don Quixote. She has taught many ballet master classes at various local dance studios.

JAMIE IRWIN-BROWN

Jamie Irwin-Brown began her training at the Allegheny Ballet Academy in Altoona, PA. At age sixteen she accepted a scholarship to study at Boston Ballet School. During her two years there she was given the opportunity to perform with Boston Ballet II as well as in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker with Boston Ballet. Jamie then joined Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, performing in repertoire productions and full-length ballets such as Copellia and Romeo and Juliet. After a three year hiatus, Jamie joined the Boston Dance Company for the 1997-98 season. Here she has performed principal roles in Cinderella; George Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie and Minkus Pas De Trois; the Nutcracker; and several original works created by James Reardon.

JESSIE-SIERRA ROMAN

Jessie-Sierra holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in dance, with a focus in ballet, from Point Park University, in Pittsburgh, PA, awarded Summa Cum Laude. Ms. Roman began her training with Anna Myer and Patrcia Adelmann in the Legat Style at the Ana Roje School of Ballet, and later, the Classical School of Ballet in Boston. She continued her training in the Balanchine Method with James Reardon and Clyde Nantais of the Boston Dance Company in Cambridge, MA. Ms. Roman has also studied and performed the Duncan technique with Patricia Adams, direcor of Dances by Isadora. She later joined the Boston Dance Company as a company member in her early teens and performed soloist and principal roles in such ballets as Nutcracker and Cinderella, as well as roles in Aggnes DeMille's Three Virgins and a Devil and George Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie. During the summers, she performed with the Boston Dance Company in the Boston Park Arts program, entertaining children around the Boston area in such classics as Reardon's Peter and the Wolf and Pie Jesu. She continued her performing career with Festival Ballet Providence, under the direction of Mihalo Djuric. There she performed chorus and soloist roles with an international ensemble of dancers and choreographers in such pieces as Nutcracker, Esmeralda, and Les Sylphides. Ms. Roman's teaching experience includes The Classical School of Ballet, the Ballet Space, and Riverside Theatre Works.

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Carise Wieloch began her dance training in Pittsburgh, PA. She danced with the Pittsburgh Performing Arts Theater for 7 years then entered the pre-professional dance program at Point Park College. She was one of the first dancers to be accepted into the performing arts summer program started in 1996 at La Roche College. Carise has been a member of the Boston Dance Company for four years and her roles have included the Snow Queen and the Dew Drop Fairy in Nutcracker

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LUCY WHITMAN-WARREN

Lucy Whitman-Warren began her dance training with her mother, Rachel Whitman, and her father, Skip Warren, both former dancers with the Boston Ballet. She danced for many years with the North Atlantic Ballet performing many principal roles including the Sugar Plum Fairy in Nutcracker and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She joined Boston Dance Company in 2004. Her roles with BDC include the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Dew Drop Fairy and Candy Cane in Nutcracker.

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Erika Wolf, Ballet Mistress, enters her 8th season with the Boston Dance Company as dancer, Ballet Mistress, and teacher. Prior to dancing with BDC, Erika danced for the Louisville and Connecticut Ballet Companies. She trained at NWCA in New York with Mimi Wallace, and at the Joffrey Ballet School. She spent her summers at Dance Aspen and Burkllyn Ballet Theatre, where she also served as Resident Choreographer for three years. Erika's choreography has been set for numerous ballet companies, schools and festivals. She received a Somerville Arts Council Fellowship grant for her ballet Progressions. She holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University and is currently a student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Boston University.

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