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Welcome
 Class Dates '08-'09
Aimee Stone
Diane Shields
Leah Harrington
April Bergeron
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  Aimee Stone is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has performed in Wyoming, Cambridge, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and many smaller cities on the East Coast with companies such as Blaze Dance Group, Kristen Day, Hawley Martin Dance, Karlins and Company, Twyla Tharp at Jacob’s Pillow in “The One Hundreds” and most recently with The Sorvino Dance Project. This summer she will be performing with The Sorvino Dance Project in New York City at Dance New Amsterdam in an evening length work that explores attachment.
For the last eight years, Aimee has directed the dance program for The MacDuffie School in Springfield. This past March she took 9 high school students to the National High School Dance Festival in Philadelphia as part of their dance education curriculum. Her most recent interest has been to explore the responsibility of artists in our society to create art which has been inspired by social or environmental issues. She has been developing workshops for high school students on this topic for the past year.
Prior to this, Ms. Stone directed the dance programs for Excel at Amherst College and Wilbraham and Monson Academy. She has also taught ballet at Bradford College where she was a guest choreographer for the student dance company. She holds her M.F.A. in choreography and performance from Smith College where she was a teaching fellow. While at Smith, she was the recipient of the Gretchen Moran Grant. She is an alumna of The School at Jacob’s Pillow. While there, she worked with Penny Campbell and Wendy Perron studying improvisation. Ms. Stone has her B.A. in Performing Arts with minors in Performing Arts Management and Historic Preservation from Bradford College and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Bradford College Alumni Association. While at Bradford, Ms. Stone was the recipient of the Florence Eisenhardt Dangerfield Dance Cup for three consecutive years. She has been affiliated with Jacob’s Pillow, Dance USA, CORD and The Doris Humphrey Society.
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