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.
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, standards which she has shared and learned from Jacqueline Cronsberg, Ms. Wilson’s long time teacher, founder of Ballet Workshop New England and the Massachusetts Youth Ballet, and current Artistic Advisor to the Boston Ballet School's newly established performing group, the Boston Ballet School Ensemble. Students of MetroWest Ballet may expect to see Mrs. Cronsberg as a guest Master Teacher.
Ms. Wilson has been invited to teach at Boston Ballet School's Young Dancers Summer Program and Performing Arts Center of Worcester Summer Program.
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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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A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, Erika Lambe-Holland is the granddaughter of famed Tenor Roland Hayes, who opened the doors of classical music to African Americans. Ms. Lambe-Holland trained at the Boston Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, and the Dance Theater of Harlem School. She performed with Boston Ballet II before joining Dance Theater of Harlem where she performed principal roles in Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite and Nijinska’s Les Biches. She was invited to tour with the company to Russia, London, France, Denmark, and Scotland, and appeared in Dance Theater of Harlem’s television productions Creole Giselle and Agnes De Milles’ Fall River Legend. In the summer of 1991 she performed in the Carlisle Project. Later, as a member of Miami City Ballet, Ms. Lambe-Holland was featured in Paul Taylor’s Three Epitaphs, Balanchine’s Concerto Borocco, Raymonda Variations, Divertimento No. 15, Diamonds, Who Cares?, and Bournonville’s Flower Festival.
Ms. Lambe-Holland joined Boston Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 1993. She danced numerous roles including Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room and Water Baby Bagatelles, Laszlo Berdo’s world premiere of Four Hands, Ben Stevenson’s Dracula and Cleopatra, John Cranko’s Eugene Onegin and The Taming of the Shrew, Paul Taylor’s Company B, Spencer Colton’s Before Ever After, Lyla York’s world premieres of Celts and Ode to Joy, Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Ecstasies and Firebird, Rudi Van Danzig’s Ginastera and Romeo and Juliet, Daniel Pelzig’s Flights of Fancy and Songs of Lyle Lovett, and Michael Pink’s production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She also danced numerous roles by Balanchine and was featured in Anna Marie Holmes’ staging of Le Corsaire, Paquita, Raymonda, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake. In 2000 she became the first African American Sugarplum Fairy in Boston Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker.
In 1999, she was featured in the PBS production I’ll Make Me A World, which chronicled the careers of African Americans in the Arts.
Ms. Lambe-Holland has taught and choreographed for the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education’s Young Dancer’s Summer Workshop and the Charles River Ballet Academy. She has also served on staff at the Boston Ballet School and the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts.
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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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Yana C. Bloomstein - Health and Nutrition
Angela Bragg - Guest Artist, Jazz
Meaghan Doherty - Guest Artist, Ballet
Jennifer Glaze - Ballet
Caroline Griswold - Guest Artist, Ballet
Courtney Jones - Ballet
Joanna Levine - Ballet
Donna Onacki - Guest Artist, Pilates
Rick Vigo - Guest Artist, Modern
Carol Wilson - Studio Manager |
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