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Lorraine Chapman 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 Chapman has created works for The National Ballet of Canada’s Choreographic Workshop, Impulse Dance Company, Choreographers Group, the Northwest New Works Festival in Seattle at On The Boards-Behnke Center, and The Bessie Schonberg Residency at The Yard. She received a commission from Alberta Ballet for their Festival of New Works: Arias 2004 sharing 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 Ms. Chapman with a Choreographer’s Project Fellowship for Summer Stages Dance 2005. She is currently dancing in her own work, in David Parker's highly acclaimed Nut/Cracked in his Boston cast, and is one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 To Watch 2008.
LCTC is currently in its fifth year. Since its’ official inception in November 2002, Lorraine Chapman, The Company Inc. 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, The Vox Consort’s full-scale production of St. John Passion by J. S. Bach, and Soaking Wet 6 produced in NYC by David Parker of David Parker & The Bang Group. LCTC received the LEF Foundation New England's Contemporary Work Fund grant '07' and is also the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Grant for Choreography ‘04-05’. |
