Director
Ballet, Repertory, Jazz
Jessica Wilson began her dance training through the Royal Academy of Dancing with Mary Tolland and received coaching from Herida May for R.A.D. exams. She also studied intensely with well known teacher Jacqueline Cronsberg, graduated from Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, and later attended State University New York (SUNY) at Purchase where she majored in dance and psychology and minored in philosophy.
Ms. Wilson began her teaching career in 1993 when she joined the faculty of Ballet Workshop New England. She was appointed Associate Director of the school in 2003. Ms. Wilson has also held the position of Ballet Mistress with the Massachusetts Youth Ballet since the company originated in 1995. There, she worked closely with Sandra Jennings, Ballet Mistress of the San Francisco Ballet and Repetiteur for the George Balanchine Trust. In 2003, Ms. Wilson was appointed Artistic Associate of the company.
In an effort to bring quality classical ballet training west of Boston and to the Worcester area, Ms. Wilson has founded MetroWest Ballet. Her intentions are to provide a warm and nurturing atmosphere of small classes and individual attention and to uphold the highest standards of classical ballet training.
Ms. Wilson has been invited to teach at Boston Ballet School's Young Dancers Summer Program and Performing Arts Center of Worcester Summer Program. She is looking forward to celebrating twenty years of teaching next fall.
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Creative Movement, Pre Ballet
Sue Karloff. With over thirty year of experience, Sue Karloff is responsible for the youngest aspiring dancers at MetroWest Ballet. Ms. Sue has taught the art of dance to students 2 ½ to 18-years-old, but she receives special joy helping the youngest students build their dance skills through Creative Movement, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Hip Hop. And she has made her number one objective to provide a nurturing environment for her students.
Her talents and kind heart have made her name quite recognizable in the local communities. One mother from Southborough explained, “When people hear Sue Karloff is teaching, they get so excited.” Another mother wrote her daughter “absolutely loved coming to class every week and always came out smiling after class. Ms. Sue made class fun and wonderful and she learned so much!”
Currently, Ms. Sue also teaches dance for the Southborough School System’s After School Program. Ms. Sue graduated Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Psychology.
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Contemporary Movement
Travers F. King, a resident of Hudson Massachusetts, has been studying theatre and dance for as long as he can remember. He began his education at various schools including Hudson Dance Academy, Center Stage Dance Studio, Ms. Kim’s School of Dance, and Sue Sabillio’s. In 2009 Travers received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance at The University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he concentrated on Contemporary and Ballet Techniques. Travers also studied at The London Contemporary Dance School, one of the most prestigious dance conservatories in the United Kingdom. He has performed works by world renowned choreographers including Paul Taylor, Murray Louis, Bebe Miller, Siobhan Davies, Shapiro and Smith, Gregg Lizenbery, and Jeff Rubadal. Before returning to the mainland this past June, Travers was working professionally with Honolulu Dance Theatre, and teaching for The Movement Center: Creating good people through excellent education in the performing arts. Other Credits include, Honolulu Broadway Baby’s: A Miracle on Bethel Street, 42nd Street, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Chicago, Red Hot and Cole, and Meet Me In St. Louis.
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Ballet, Repertory
Brian Roberts began his training with Samuel Kurkjian where he later danced with the company, the Boston Repertory Ballet, dancing in works by Kurkjian, Ricky Weiss, Choo-San Goh and others. He later went on to study on Scholarship at The School of American Ballet with the late Stanley Williams, and performed with the school’s Lincoln Center Lecture Series. Mr. Roberts then joined the Pennsylvania Ballet under the direction of Ricky Weiss, dancing in works by Balanchine, Cunningham, Taylor-Corbett, Weiss and others. He then went on to join the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House. While in Washington, D.C. he often performed with the Washington Opera including the World Premiere of Dominick Argento’s The Dream of Valentino (1993), with choreography by Donald Sadler, where he was the dance double for the lead character Valentino.
He earned his Master’s Degree in Performing Arts: Dance, from American University (Washington, D.C.) in 1997. His ballet Triad was featured as a part of imagesommertanz in Vienna, Austria in 1996 (die theater Kunstlerhaus). An except from his ballet Te Yashe, was performed by Janet Shibata, formerly of ABT, as a part of the Washington Ballet’s 20th Anniversary Gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Mr. Roberts has taught and or choreographed at many institutions including New World School of the Arts (both high school and college), The Florida Dance Festival, American University, Towson State University, Miami City Ballet School where he was also the Director of Education Outreach, and the Walnut Hill School of the Arts among others.
Mr. Roberts is very happy to be joining the faculty of the MetroWest Ballet School.
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Student Teacher, Rehearsal Assistant
Julia Larcenaire
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Additional Faculty and Former Guest Artists
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Kara Bologna - Guest Artist, Ballet
Yana C. Bloomstein - Health and Nutrition
Angela Bragg - Guest Artist, Jazz
Meaghan Doherty - Guest Artist, Ballet
Jennifer Glaze - Ballet
Gloria Govrin - Guest Master Teacher, Ballet
Caroline Griswold - Guest Artist, Ballet
Courtney Jones - Ballet Faculty
Joanna Levine - Ballet
Donna Onacki - Guest Artist, Pilates
Danielle Santos - Guest Artist - Ballet
Rick Vigo - Guest Artist, Modern
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Business Development
Kevin Rudat
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