Company
Adult Company
Sean C. Fielder President / Founder / Artistic Director / Choreographer
Sean started dancing at the age of 3, and by the age of 7, Sean realized he loved what he was doing. In fact, he was too in love with tap for anything to stop him from doing it from then on. He began dancing at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. It is no exaggeration to say that growing up at this dance school was the best thing that ever happen to him. He was 10 years old when he performed in his first professional show, “The Jazz Tap Hip Hop Festival” with the “Dance Umbrella” dance company, which was run by a very important man in the tap community named Jeremy. That was the moment when he realized that tap was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. When he turned 18, he auditioned for the Broadway show “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk”. At the time, the “Noise Funk” had already won 4 Tony awards, and Sean happened to be one of the dancers chosen to audition for the national touring company. In 1997, Sean participated in “Funk University”, an intensive tap program in NYC, where he stayed after the program’s conclusion. During that year, Sean was featured in Missy Elliot’s video “The Rain”. Later on that same year, he was picked for the national tour of “Noise Funk”. Sean began the tour as an understudy, but after 5 months he worked his way into the lead role. During the tour Sean performed for Hillary Clinton, Jay Leno, Sinbad, on CNN World News and on many other TV programs. After the tour ended, Sean was featured on another 6 month tour with Debbie Allen and Dick Clark for the American Heart Association. Sean has been interviewed on WBUR with Andrea Shea (2007), and To The Pointe with Devin Hill. He has been featured in articles in The Boston Herald (2007), The Boston Metro (2007), The Boston Phoenix (2007), The Washington Times (1998), and Broadside Style (1998). Most recently, Sean performed in the 2007 “BeanTown Tap Festival”, the “Urban Nutcracker”, and started “Boston Tap Company” (BTC), a Boston based non-profit organization and dance company. BTC has already performed at Mass Moca with Dianne Walker and friends, Boston University, The South End House and the Robert White Community Center. Dancing has been a part of his life since he was a child, and it has made him into the positive, productive and inspirational person he is today.
Jaimee Dimarco Dance Captain, adult company
Jaimee is a life-long resident of New York and currently a sophomore at Boston University, majoring in Deaf Studies and Psychology. She is a dancer and choreographer for “BU on Tap,” Boston University’s only tap company. She has studied under Darlene Eirish-Schofield, David Rider, Mike Minery, Gil Stroming and Andrew Nemr. Some of her accomplishments include being a recipient of the 2002 Starpower Senior Tap Champion Award and touring with Starpower’s PowerPak, performing in Gil Stroming’s Off-Broadway show, “Break the Floor” for six consecutive years and then being personally selected by Gil to be a cast member at the New York City Fringe Festival, and performing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra as a cast member of Mike Minery’s “Slide.”
Jessica Bennett
New to the Boston Jessica has an extensive background in Jazz, Tap, Street-Funk, and Hip-Hop dance. She also teaches group fitness classes. Jessica co-founded and was President of the University of Connecticut Tap Team. She led her team to the receipt of multiple first place awards and titles. Jessica also was a member of the dance company Stoptime Dance Theater from 2003-2006. Jessica is excited to have relocated to the Boston area and is currently a School Psychology Graduate Student at Northeastern University.
Georgia Biewald
Georgia has been tap dancing for seven years with Eve Agush and Rose Giovanetti at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has been their assistant in the beginner class for the past 4 years. During this time she has attended several workshops including the Percussive Dance Festival in Portsmouth , New Hampshire and the Tradition in Tap weekend workshop in Manhattan with Dr. Jimmy Slyde. Georgia has performed in yearly recitals and the Saturday Morning Kids Variety show at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline , MA.
Sybil Huggins
Sybil Huggins has been dancing since the age of three,and was exposed to the brilliance of tap dancing at eleven. Studying under Leon Collins, then later , under the tutelage of Lady Di, she became immersed in the art form. She has also studies w/ Julia Boynton, Joshua Hilberman, Brian Jones, and is recently part of the tap duo–Jai & Sybil, with tap instructor Jai Underhill.
Andrew Kuklewicz
Andrew Kuklewicz is an active member of the Boston tap scene, performing at every opportunity, and dancing at tap jams, festivals and events throughout the area. His teen years were spent competing and performing in and around his hometown of Tyler, Texas. In college at Yale, he continued performing and choreographing by founding an all-tap dance troupe that continues to this day. Today Andrew works in technology for a non-profit while continuing his tap studies with Pam Raff and Julia Boynton.
Allen Major
20 Years old. Started dancing at the age of three at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. Graduated from Cathedral High School in Boston MA. Allen recently performed with the Boston Tap Company at Mass Moca as part of the “Dianne Walker and Friends”.
Jenny Oliver
Jenny graduated from Dean College with her BA in dance. She has studied with numerous professional dance icons, and has performed with the Haitian folkloric company Arc En-Ciel Dance Troupe, Roots Uprising and recently performed with the Boston Tap Company at Mass Moca as part of the “Dianne Walker and Friends”.
Brittany Petersen
In small-town Minnesota, Brittany started her first tap class at the age of 2. She has been studying and teaching tap dance at studios and workshops throughout the tap world ever since. Her most influential experiences have been dancing with Karla Grotting and Joe Chvala at the University of Minnesota; studying dance at Folkuniversitetet’s Balletakademien in Goteborg, Sweden; teaching Tap Funk at the Urban Dance Complex in Burlington, Vermont; and attending classes at the Broadway Dance Center in NYC. Brittany has a degree in Electrical Engineering and is a Transportation Systems Engineer at IBI Group in Boston. She is honored and proud to be a part of the Boston Tap Company.
Jenny Reynoso
Jenny has trained, taught and competed at Dance Images Dance Center in Methuen, MA for the past 14 years. She taught ballet, tap, jazz and hip-hop for three years, and competed with the studio in the New England area. She attended the Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston and the Latin School of Music and Arts for 6 years. Dancing folklore and other native dances from the Dominican Republic. Jenny has performed in benefits and shows with her dance studio and the dance team of Umass Lowell She is now a new member of Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company.
Robyn Young Will be graduating with her BA in dance from Dean College May 2008. Her life is dedicated to the art of performing and keeping her passion alive. She has studied with many great tap dancers including Derick Grant, Brenda Bufalino, Jimmy Slyde and Dianne Walker. Young recently performed with the Boston Tap Company at Mass Moca as part of the “Dianne Walker and Friends”.
Junior Company
Belle Abbott
Belle has been studying dance for the last six years. Through her experience at Dance Mechanix and now Charlotte Klein Dance Center, Belle competes in dance competitions throughout New England. She has earned gold and platinum awards and in 2004 won title (Little Miss Dynamite) for her tap solo. Belle actively shares her love for tap by dancing in showcases, recitals, talent shows, jams and variety shows. Belle is an enthusiastic tapper with a genuine love for this art form and now, — the youngest member of BTC’s Youth Company.
Grace Abbott
Grace has been taking dance lessons (tap, ballet, jazz, modern & hip hop) for the last five years; first at Dance Mechanix in Charlton, MA and now Charlotte Klein Dance Center in Worcester, MA. Grace competes in dance competitions and has earned gold and platinum awards, and in 2004, she won title for over-all high score (in all dance forms) for her tap solo. Grace has studied with Pam Raff and Julia Boynton, Grace is happy to be part of the BTC Youth Company.
Melissa Abbott
Melissa is an avid lover of tap and an active member of the tap community in the Boston area. She has been a student of Pam Raff, Julia Boynton, Brenda Bufalino, Derick Grant, Max Pollack, Dianne Walker and Barbara Duffy. Melissa lives in central MA and works at a family owned construction business and Christmas tree farm. She is a mother of three children, all of whom tap dance and daughters Grace and Belle are also members of the BTC Youth Company. Melissa is proud to be part of the genesis of BTC.
Emily Ambrosino
Has been dancing since she was three years old. She is a member of the Express Dance and Acrobatics Performance Team competing throughout Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire. She has been competing with a tap solo for the past five years, where she has earned numerous Platinum, top high scores and special awards. She also competes in group numbers in tap, jazz, lyrical, musical theater, and acrobatics, and also studies ballet. Emily is the winner of the 2007 MIscoe Middle School Talent Show. Emily has attended numerous dance conventions, including The Pulse, in New York City, where she has performed for and taken master classes from Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Shane Sparks, Wade Robson, David Scott, and Chris Judd. Emily has recently performed with The Boston Tap Company at The Beantown Tap Festival, Jacobs Pillow and Rhythm in the Night 2008. She also is a member of the Miscoe Middle School Dance Troupe, has been involved in student council, and the Miscoe Middle School band, playing the Clarinet. She also plays softball and is on a competitive cheerleading squad. She is very excited and honored to be dancing with Sean Fielder and all the talented members of The Boston Tap Company. She is now eleven years old and the youngest member of the Boston Tap Company.
Claire Diegel
Graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Clare used her dance skills in college to raise money for Camp Heartland, a Camp for children with or affected by HIV/AIDS by choreographing, dancing, and starring in a series of musicals put on by the University’s Greek System. Clare won a variety of awards, including Best Choreographer, Best Female Lead, Best Large Group Number, and Best Dance Break. Clare is also the producer and host of an internet radio show called, “Thing You Should Know,”
Chandler Marsh
18 years old have grew up in Boston. Started dancing at the age of 4 at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. Currently a senior in high school and will graduate June of 2008. I dance because it is my personal way of expressing my inner self.
David Marsh
I am 17 years of age. I have been tapping since the age of 5 at the Roxbury center of the performing arts. I have performed at the Mass college of art. Other than tap I like to play football and basketball. I play for brighton high school. I am a high school junior and am looking to attend Worchester Polytechnical Institute.
Venessa Marta
Vanessa Merta is currently 15 years old and is a sophomore at Masconomet Regional High School. She has been dancing for 13 years and has never found anything she loved more. She has competed with her studio at many competitions with many different styles of dance, but tap has always been her favorite. Vanessa has participated in the New York City Tap Festival, Tap City’s Pre-professional program; also she performed in ‘Rhythm in The Night’ the Boston Tap Companies first big performance. Through out this year she did a lot of shows with the Boston Tap company including one at the Natick Montessori School, Northeastern University and the renowned dance festival Jacob’s Pillow.
Shaquan Reed
A 14 year old from Hyde Park MA, Shaquan began dancing at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts at the age of 7. He has performed in Harlem Renaissance with a Boston F in 2004-05. In 2004 he began his first Hooffin experience under his now mentor Sean Fielder. In 2005 he was the youngest of four dancers to perform in the Twentieth Century under Tony McClain. Shaquan recently performed with the Boston Tap Company at Mass Moca as part of the “Dianne Walker and Friends” and is also a part of the dance crew Status Quo on ‘Americas Best Dance Crew’
Tevin Smith
Now 14 years old, Tevin has been dancing for 11 years. Last year he participated in the Urban Nutcracker. Smith is also a member of the Golden Kidz Hip-Hop dance group that won first place in the Biv-10 competition and performed in the Beantown Bounce. Tevin recently performed with the Boston Tap Company at Mass Moca as part of the “Dianne Walker and Friends”.
Tim Stickney
Tim Stickney started dancing at the age of three. He has studied tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, and modern in NY, NC, and MA. He is a former National Grand Champion in tap, ADA Dancer of the Year, Teen Mr. Starquest, Teen Mr. Dance Xplosion, and Dancer of the Year for Talent America. He has performed at Disney World, Universal Studios and Lake George Opera Festival. Tim is also a member of the Central District Choir for the state of MA in 2008. Tim is currently a student at The Gold School in Brockton, MA in the Project Moves program. He is very excited about his second season with Sean and the talented people of the Boston Tap Company!
Mary Stickney
Mary Elizabeth Stickney has been dancing since she was three years old. Studying tap, jazz, ballet, modern, and lyrical, she is a member of the Project Moves program at The Gold School in Brockton, MA. Her dance accomplishments include performing at Disney World, Jacob’s Pillow, Beantown Tap Festival, being named Teen Dancer of the Year at Talent America in 2006, Youth Orchestra program at the New England Conservatory and earning “Top High Score Teen Duet/Trio” four times in 2007 for her tap duet with her brother, Tim. She is thrilled and honored to have been a part of the Boston Tap Company since its inaugural season!