Carolyn Paine
Carolyn Paine is pleased to be teaching at Ballet Theatre for her 7th year. She began her training at Boston Ballet and danced featured children's roles in such productions as “The Nutcracker” and “Cinderella” set by Ben Stevenson of Houston Ballet. She later went on to study with Jose Mateo at Ballet Theatre of Boston where she performed roles created for her by Mr. Mateo with his youth company YouthWorks and alongside the professional company. Carolyn also studied in summer sessions at The Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet and completed the ceritificate program and performed at the Academie de Danse Classique de Princesse Grace in Monaco working with Nureyev's mentor and dance legend Marika Bresobrasova. She also completed the professional certificate program at the Ecole Superiuer de Danse in France. She perfromed for six seasons as a principal dancer with Ballet Theatre Company under the direction of Richard Steinert. Some of her favorite roles included Dew Drop Fairy in “The Nutcracker” and the principal role in Margueritte D'Anguera's “Melodies." Carolyn also has performed in New York City working with Dwight Rhoden of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Jacqueline Buglisi of Buglisi Dance Theatre, and Alan Sener of Limon Company. She has performed as a soloist with Ballet Rox in Boston, MA under the direction of Tony Williams and has performed the principal classical Sugar Plum as well as jazz pas de deuxs in his popular “Urban Nutcracker." Carolyn also worked with Yvonne Rainer in her "RoS Indexical" presented as part of the International Dance Festival at Yale Rep in New Haven. Additionally, she has performed as a guest artist with other companies for the Nutcracker season, including Shore Dance Company in RI. In 2007 she was honored as a dancer and teacher by the National Association for Dance and Affliated Arts. She has been on the faculty at The Tony Williams Dance Center in Boston, MA, The University of Hartford Hartt School Community Division, The Dance Center in West Hartford, and Ballet Theatre Academy in West Hartford and has done choreography for many theatrical productions including Godspell Jr with Lamb Theatricals at The Bushnell, The Trinity Arts Theatre in Newport, RI, The Park Road Playhouse in West Hartford, and most recently Hartford Children's Theatre. Carolyn is the co-founder, co-director, and a choreographer for the CT based contemporary ballet company CONNetic Dance which has performed professionally throughout New England and New York City and is proud to collaborate with Ballet Theatre Academy. For more, visit www.carolynpaine.com and www.conneticdance.com
