Our Team
The team behind Ensemble Dance Collective is made up of professional faculty and incredible staff all committed to our teaching philosophy and inclusive community. Many on our team are also accomplished dancers, educators, and choreographers. We’re so proud to have them with us!
Lorraine Chapman
Artist-in-Residence, Ballet
Artistic Director of Momentum
Lorraine Chapman’s professional dance career spans 38 years. She danced with several international companies including Ballet British Columbia and Eliot Feld Ballets/NY, as well as locally with Amy Spencer & Richard Colton, José Mateo Ballet Theatre, Prometheus Dance, and Marcus Schulkind.
Her formal training includes The Ballet Academy, Boston Ballet, Boston Repertory Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and École Supérieure De Ballet Du Québec. As a choreographer she has received numerous awards including LEF Foundation New England’s Contemporary Work Fund Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Grant for Choreography, Choreographer’s Project Fellowship Summer Stages Dance, The Dance Complex’s CATALYSTS Series, Boston Dance Alliance Rehearsal & Retreat Fellowship, 2013 Brother Thomas Fellowship, The Gallery of the Pentacle dance agency, Boston Center for the Arts Dance Residency, Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project, Dance Magazine’s one of “25 To Watch”, Regional Dance Development Initiative – NE Dance Lab, 3 New England States Touring Grants, New Hampshire Theater Award for Best Direction, and a Live Arts Boston Grant.
Lorraine has been teaching dance for 30 years and is the founder and director of LCTC (2002-present), her New England-based professional dance-theater company. She is beyond excited for her new role with Ensemble Dance Collective as the Artist-In-Residence and the Artistic Director of our pre-professional company Momentum.
Aliza Franz
Contemporary
Aliza Franz (she/they) is a dancer, collaborator, and arts manager. Aliza is currently a company member of VLA Dance, Abilities Dance Boston, and Eliza Malecki Dance. She has had the pleasure of working with Lorraine Chapman the Company and is currently in the process of developing her own work.
Aliza graduated from Skidmore College in 2020, where she earned a double major in Dance: Performance and Choreography and Psychology, with a minor in Gender Studies. Outside of dance, Aliza is the Creative Director of Zamana Art, a company that provides corporate team building through the lens of art and creativity, and a facilitator for Artists Anonymous, a program run by Dunamis Boston.
Aliza continues to explore her identity through movement and advocate for diversity in creative spaces. She is an alumnus of Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester and returned as faculty in 2022. She is excited to continue to instruct others from a familiar home for dance as part of Ensemble Dance Collective.
Stephanie Heroux
Lyrical
Stephanie Heroux has toured internationally as a Dancer/Dance Captain for Royal Caribbean International, and performed locally with the The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Lorraine Chapman The Company, and as a principal dancer for ACE Entertainment. She studied under Matt Mattox and Chet Walker at The School at Jacob’s Pillow, holds a BA from Boston University in English Literature and Business Administration, a DPT from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Board Licensure as a physical therapist in MA, and is a certified instructor of the Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) and The Ellové Technique®.
Stephanie is the founder and director, and a principal dancer, of Jazz Inc Dance, a Boston-based production company specializing in the preservation of jazz dance through concert and commercial theatre. She teaches master classes and choreographs for dance and theatre companies across New England and has held faculty positions at The Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, Boston Youth Moves, Green Street Studios, Ballet Arts Center of Winchester, Emerson College, Harvard University, the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advance Theatre Studies, and was director of the Jeannette Neill Children’s Dance Program. She is excited to join the Ensemble Dance Center faculty.
Beyond the studio, Stephanie provides physical therapy services to clients at a local outpatient clinics and in performing arts venues around Boston. She enjoys both teaching dancers of all ages and treating all types of artistic athletes as a physical therapist, specializing in preventive care, injury reduction education, and rehabilitation. However, her most important job is Mama to her baby girl and two rescue pups.
Nicole Marley
Ballet, Jazz, Children's Work
Nicole Marley received her training in ballet, jazz, and modern dance at Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester. As a member of BAC’s Performance Company, she appeared in the Mass Festival for the Arts and Jose Mateo’s Dance for World Community Festival.
Nicole earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Dance at Salem State University, where she received the Presidential Arts Scholarship and the Creativity Award in Dance. She has performed with Sarah Slifer Swift, Forty Steps Dance, and the Salem Dance Ensemble, which included opportunities such as training with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater of New York and performing in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. She enjoys sharing her love for dance and has been teaching children’s work, ballet, and jazz since 2013.
Additionally, Nicole holds a Master of Education from Boston University and a Master of Art in Teaching English from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught English at Boston University since 2017 and at Austin Preparatory School since 2021.
Carrie Voiland
Ballet
Carrie Voiland began her dance training at the Shirley Rock School under the direction of Bo Spassoff. She performed professionally as a child in Pennsylvania Ballet (now Philadelphia Ballet) performances for many years.
Carrie graduated from the Boston Conservatory under Yasuko Tokanaga with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance in 2001. While there she performed many Main Stage productions including Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring which the New York Times recognized as the first time that any student company staged a work by Graham. While working on her degree and after graduating, Ms. Carrie worked for Boston Ballet as a full time Administrator, and then the New York City Ballet in Special Events. It wasn’t until she moved back to Boston and began teaching that she found her niche.
Carrie has taught for many schools including Boston Ballet, Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester, Boston Adult Education, Dance Workshop of Hanover, and The School of Ballet Arts where also served as Director from 2008 to 2013. Carrie has performed with many local companies including Snappy Dance, On-e-On, Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, Zoe Dance, Morse Dance, Kate Nies and Dancers, Danny Swain and Dancers, Annie Kloppenberg Dancers, and Kelly Donovan and Dancers.
