Janet Taisey
Craft (choreographer &
director) is the founder and artistic director of The Ipswich
Moving Company. Her choreography has been presented in the US,
the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, and at the International
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Janet is head of the
Dance Program at Emerson College in Boston. Her work was selected
to appear in the First International Aerial Dance Festival in
1992. Janet has lived in Ipswich for over twenty-five years
where she has drawn inspiration for many of her dances and theatre
pieces. The Company makes it home in a renovated barn across
from the Town Wharf.
Maria Andresino
(performer) became involved with The Ipswich Moving Company
over 15 years ago with one of its first aerial works. She was
a principal dancer and manager of the Offbalance Company. She
now lives and works in San Francisco as a certified personal
trainer and Pilates instructor.
Jim Boutin
(performer & designer) is one of the original Aerial Dance
creators. He has performed with the Ipswich Moving Company in
aerial dances, site installations and school programs since
the 1980's. He has gained critical acclaim as a set designer
in New York City and throughout the US.
Jenny Carlson
(dancer) graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in dance.
Jenny grew up dancing in Connecticut at the Imperial Academy
of Dance. She has performed with Julie Ince-Thompson and is
currently working with Flipside Dance Theatre and The Ipswich
Moving Company. She has performed with Ipswich Moving Company
at The Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2000 and 2001. Her Choreography
has been presented at the American College Dance Festival. She
is the director of the Children and Teen Dance Program at the
Ipswich Moving Company Studio.
DeAnna Pellecchia
(dancer) has made a career out of pushing the boundaries of
"modern dance" by blending movement with diverse landscapes,
mediums and disciplines. In the process she has danced with
horses, in trees, on stilts, under water and through air. Ms.
Pellecchia received a BA in Dance Performance from Roger Williams
University; she teaches at Boston University, is co-director
of dance for Medicine Wheel Production's Youth Outreach Program
and is a practicing ACE-certified Personal Trainer. DeAnna currently
dances with Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, Paula Josa-Jones Performance
Works and Bennett Dance Company, for which she is also Rehearsal
Director; this is her second season with Ipswich Moving Company.
Sandra Galley (Lighting Designer)
The Luminaires Group is the design/production arm of Galley
Theatre Lighting, a lighting rental company operated by Charles
and Sandra Galley for more than 30 years. Sandra designs for
drama and dance. Her last project was ALIGHT for Ipswich
Moving Company and her next production will be "The Laramie
Project" at Brooks School. Other recent credits include:
"Stringmaker", a community dance piece by Turning
The Wheel Productions; "Dido and Aeneus" for the Cambridge
Community Chorale; "Hamlet" at the Derry (NH) Opera
House, and numerous academic and community theatre productions.
Adrienne Mincz (Choreographer,
Dancer) trained extensively with Fred Benjamin, Richard Levi,
Lynn Simonson, Jennifer Muller, Adrienne Hawkins and Miguel
Lopez. As a concert dancer, she was a member of Impulse Dance
Company and Peter DiMuro Performance Associates of Boston. She
has been a guest teacher at Danshuset Studio in Sweden. As a
dancer with ACE Entertainment Adrienne has performed in film
and video. She was commissioned to choreograph the Gloucester
Stage world premier of Stations of the Cross, a one-act
play by Israel Horowvitz. Ms. Mincz is artistic director of
Five Flights Up. She is a certified Stott Pilates trainer and
is the director of Pilates in the Barn at Ipswich Moving Company
Studio.
Sativa Saposnek