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.

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