Company biographies

The Board of Directors of Lorraine Chapman, The Company, Inc.

The Dancers of Lorraine Chapman, The Company, Inc.

Ruth Bronwen

is originally from the Boston area and received her early training and performance experience with the Boston Ballet. She graduated from UMASS Boston with a B.A. in English and Dance, where she began exploring and performing her own work. Ruth has since performed for a number of companies and individuals including Kinodance, Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre, Marcus Schulkind and Contrapose Dance. Important teachers and influences include Tatiana Legat, Cosmin Merculateau, Lisa Pari, Cornelia Sampson, Marcus Schulkind, Mary Thompson, Anne Tolbert and Jesse Winder. When not performing, Ruth teaches ballet and modern dance, and continues to choreograph and develop her own work. She is a current member of Contrapose Dance, and is pleased to be in LCTC.

Isabel Esquitin

received her ballet training at EPDC in Puebla, Mexico. She graduated from Universidad de las Americas with a BSc in Actuarial Sciences and a Minor in Dance. In Mexico, Isabel performed with UDLA-danza, Sunny Savoy Dance Company and Ad-Libitum Dance Company. She moved to Boston in 2004 and has since performed with Kelley Donovan, Danny Swain, Jimena Bermejo, Caitlin Corbett, and taught for Topf Center for Dance Education and The Guidance Center. Currently, Isabel is a teacher assistant at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute studios and teaches dance at Haynes EEC and for Cambridge Performance Project.

Jessica Howard

received her Bachelor of the Arts in Theatre and Dance from Keene State College. As an undergraduate she performed in dance works by artists such as Pilobolus, Mark Dendy, Sara Sweet Rabidoux (Hoi Polloi), Paul Besaw, Candice Salyers, Cathy Nicoli and many others. Jessica has performed and presented for the 2010 Dance Complex Shared Choreographers Concert "Perpetual Motion," and the American College Dance Festival Alliance in 2008 and 2009. She received the 2009 Alta Lu Townes Memorial Dance Award Endowment and the 2009 Charles Hildebrandt Award. Jessica is a 200hr Certified Yoga Teacher from School Yoga Institute in Sadhana Yoga. She is thrilled to be joining LCTC this season.

For over ten years Jesse Mangan has been devotely studying sequential art and working as a freelance cartoonist. Currently a senior in Mutlimedia Design and Dance at Salem State College Jesse has spent the past two years studying physical theatre and contemporary dance and has had the privilege of interning with LCTC since May 2009.

Catherine, a.k.a. "Cat", Murcek

had her foundational training in ballet in rural central Pennsylvania near her hometown. While attending the Northfield Mount Hermon School in western MA for her last two years of high school, she danced on the senior company there and switched her focus to modern dance. After a slight dance hiatus while getting her degree in International Economics at Franklin College of Switzerland, she got back into dancing seriously when she moved to the Boston area about three years ago. Since then, she has worked with numerous local and non-local choreographers including Nicole Dagesse, Bryce Dance, Emily Beattie, Ruth Bronwen, Mariela Cerda, Mariah Steele, WeberDance, Stephen Koplowitz, Contrapose Dance, and Sara Rudner, in addition to her own dabblings in choreography. She is currently a member of ZoeDance and the And So No Sin Performance Troupe, and is going through the Yogaworks yoga teacher certification. She is super psyched to now also be working with the brilliant and talented ladies of LCTC!

Angie Muzzy's

fascination and love of movement began when she created dances to her favorite, fierce, feminine music group TLC in the woods of Warwick, MA . She enjoyed making dances so much she went on to receive a degree in Theater and Dance from Keene State College. She has worked with choreographers Robert Battle, Beppie Blankert, Stephan Koplowitz, Candice Salyers, and many others. She choreographs and teaches at various private dance schools, public elementary and middle schools and preparatory schools throughout Southern New Hampshire and Western Massachusetts. She is also the co-founder of Dilettante Dance, Keene NH. She has continued her education outside of academia by interning at Jacob’s Pillow Dance in Becket, MA and The Yard, a colony for performing artists in Chilmark, MA. Angie also attended and performed at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME and the International Bluegrass Dance Festival in La Grange, KY.

Lindsey Ridgeway

received her dance education from Atlanta Ballet School as well as Boston Ballet School, studying with Carol Roderick, Kathleen Mitchell and Franco De Vita. Upon graduating she danced with Tulsa Ballet as a trainee and later joined Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre for their 2006 season. Since returning to dance after a two year break she has had the wonderful opportunity of working with Marcus Schulkind, Egoart.Inc, Audra Carabetta, and Contrapose Dance. She is excited to be working with LCTC.