Summer Dance Intensive Week

Jamie received her training at the Allegheny Ballet Academy and Boston Ballet with several summers spent studying at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She was selected to perform corps de ballet roles in Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and was invited to tour in BBII’s production of Snow White. She went on to dance with Indianapolis Ballet Theatre and the Boston Dance Company where notable roles included the title role in Cinderella, Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen and Dew Drop in The Nutcracker, and Balanchine’s Valse Fantaisie and Minkus pas de Trois. Over the past several years, Ms. Brown has enjoyed sharing her passion as a teacher, choreographer and rehearsal coach for studios throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Her students have established themselves with professional ballet companies, in television and on Broadway, as well as continuing on to major in dance at prestigious universities.

Peter Mansfield is a West Haven, Connecticut native who was born with a passion for dance. Peter attended the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT during high school in the dance program and is a graduate from Dean College with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Associate Degree in Exercise Science. Peter has experienced the professional world of dance by dancing with the Paul Taylor II Dance Company during their residency at Yale University and being a current company member with the Urbanity Dance Company of Boston, MA. He has also worked with performers and choreographers such as Aubrey Lynch, Levi Marsmen, Todd Shanks, Kristina Berger, Jill Silverman, Kurt Douglas and Stephan Ursprung.  He aspires to use all these experiences to expand his career in the professional dance world. He has been awarded numerous scholarships for dance and performing including the Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance scholarship and the Urbanity Dance Summer Intensive Scholarship.  Peter has experience dancing in all styles of dance, but his greatest loves are ballet and modern.

Charlotte began her studies of classical ballet in northern Virginia where she had the opportunity to study with many wonderful teachers including Thomas Russell, Edward Caton, Leon Folkine, and Oleg Tupine. She then went on to study and perform with the National Ballet of Washington, D.C., under Frederick Franklin and Ben Stevenson. In 1972, she moved to Annapolis, Maryland and became a founding member and dancer with the Ballet Theatre of Annapolis, now Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Maryland’s only professional ballet company. While performing with BTM, she danced many roles including the DewDrop Fairy, Grandmother, Arabian, Snow, Flowers, and Mother Gigone in the Nutcracker, and created such roles as the lead Temptress in Artistic Director Edward Stewart’s 11th Commandment and the mother in Three Faces of Eve. Other roles include the Queen in Sleeping Beauty and the nurse in Romeo and Juliet. Charlotte served as School Administrator for the Ballet Theatre of Maryland School and taught there until 2006. She also worked as Ballet Mistress and Rehearsal Assistant for the Ballet Theatre of Maryland under the direction of the founding Artistic Director, Edward Stewart. In 2012, she moved to Massachusetts and was excited to be able to share her love for teaching with Ballet Arts Worcester, and now The Hanover Theatre Conservatory.

Edmy is an architectural designer, fine artist, choreographer and Flamenco dancer. Edmy started studying Flamenco at “El Patio Andaluz”, Dominican Republic where she learned the foundation of the art form, “Sevillanas, Castañuelas y Clásico Español” by the hand of Paquita Acosta. In 2003, Edmy moved to Massachusetts and continued pursuing dance under the training of the well-known Maestro Ramon De Los Reyes, and his sons Isaac and Nino De Los Reyes. She has taken master classes with instructors such as Clara Ramona, La Lupi, Pastora Galvan, Alfonso Losa, Concha Jareño, Jesús Carmona, Estefanía Narváez and more. ​ In 2005, Edmy started teaching Latin dances and Flamenco dances at different local dance schools in the Worcester area including Ritmos Academy and Salsa Storm. Still, it wasn’t until 2012 that Flamenco Worcester was born with the mission of promoting her passion, establishing a Flamenco community and welcoming guest master dancers to the Worcester area. Edmy has built a studio from the ground up and teaches with patience, humor, and passion with both children and adults!

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ana Luisa graduated from the Maria Olenewa State School of Dance, the official School of the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro. The Olenewa School is internationally recognized, with graduates performing in major Ballet Companies throughout the world. While a student there, Ms. Thompson was chosen to perform in Coppelia and La Sylphide with the Company of Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro. She also danced professionally with the Brazilian Modern Dance Company, Companhia de Danca Rio. Thompson served on the faculty at the Performing Arts School of Worcester from 1998 until 2004 where she was a former Ballet Mistress, Assistant Director and Director of Curriculum working under the direction of several known names as Dierdre Miles-Burger and Richard Rein. She choreographed ballet, modern and contemporary pieces for the Worcester Youth Ballet Company and PASOW’s The Nutcracker. Thompson has performed in numerous productions of The Nutcracker; she was guest artist with the Melrose Youth Ballet, Dance It Up and PASOW’s since 1997 dancing the roles of Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Arabian Princess and Spanish Soloist. Thompson has completed the DAVID HOWARD Intensive Dance Seminar for Teachers in 2000 and participated in Boston Ballet’s Adult Summer Camp. She has been the Ballet Mistress at Ballet Arts Worcester for many years.