Photo: Liza Voll

Lorraine Chapman

Instructor
Ballet, Pointe, Co-Director of Emersion Pre-Professional Dance Program

Lorraine Chapman danced professionally with Eliot Feld Ballets/NY and Ballet British Columbia as well as for several Boston-based choreographers including Amy Spencer, Richard Colton, Diane Arvanites, Jose Matéo, and Marcus Schulkind. As a choreographer Chapman has received several grants and has created works for numerous festivals and companies, officially forming her own company, LCTC, in 2002 which was represented by Pentacle - a NYC-based management support organization. Chapman’s awards include New England States Touring Grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts, a Boston Dance Alliance Rehearsal & Retreat Fellowship, a Brother Thomas Fellowship and a Live Arts Boston grant from The Boston Foundation, a Boston Center for the Arts Dance Residency and two Summer Stages Dance Residencies as well as being featured in Dance Magazine as one of “25 To Watch”. Ms. Chapman received her training at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and L'Ecole Superieure De Danse Du Quebec as well as from Boston veterans Frances Kotelly and Samuel Kurkjian. Lorraine has been on faculty at BAC since 1995 and has or continues to teach for The Conservatory at Northeast School of Ballet, Urbanity Dance, Acton School of Ballet, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Emerson College, Boston Arts Academy, Concord Academy, and José Mateo Ballet Theatre.
 
"As a young dancer, I always took my training seriously and I gravitated toward those teachers who I knew would advance me at the pace I desired – but not only the teachers. I also gravitated toward other young dancers like myself who wanted nothing more in the world than to dance professionally. The combination of the dance educators I thankfully found and the students I trained side by side with fueled my ambition and drove me to constantly strive for an ever-elusive perfection. It is with this philosophy that I try to train, nurture, and inspire my students, whether they are looking for a career or are dancing because they love it and want to be the best dancer they can be." 
-Lorraine Chapman