LAURA FARIA, Artistic Director, is originally from Pocasset, Cape Cod, MA where she began her earliest ballet training at a number of ballet schools, including Boston Ballet and Hartford Ballet. Ms. Faria received a full scholarship to the prestigious Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida where she spent her high school years. Upon graduation she danced for a number of professional ballet companies throughout the country including Milwaukee Ballet, Channel Islands Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Ballet Wisconsin and Configuration, a Cape-based professional dance company that recently received rave reviews in New York City. Ms. Faria has performed leading roles in such classical ballets as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Le Corsaire, and Don Quixote, as well as her favorite leading roles in George Balanchine’s Apollo and Valse Fantasie. Most recently, she has had the honor of working with renowned choreographers such as Harrison McEldowney and Graham Lustig. In the June 2006 issue of Dance Europe magazine, Ms. Faria was described as "sleek and lovely" for her work in Lustig's "Six Pianos".
Ms. Faria’s students and classical and contemporary choreography have received national high recognition and awards including “Best in Ballet,” the honorable “Critics Choice Award” at New York City Dance Alliance, and first place overall at L.A. Dance Magic, which was the first ballet ever to receive this honor in the history of this competition. In 2002, Ms. Faria’s Bach’s Suite was broadcast on national television for being the highest scoring ballet at the Showstopper finals in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In 2003, Ms. Faria coordinated and helped to choreograph a production of “Breezes of the Sea,” involving over 300 elementary school students who received the opportunity to perform with a group of professional dancers from around the world. Ms. Faria's students have been accepted to, and have received scholarships to, prestigious dance programs such as Milwaukee Ballet, American Ballet Thetre, Virginia School of the Arts, Walnut Hill, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and The Harid Conservatory.
Laura Faria of Boston is playing the Sugar Plum Fairy
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Minneapolis Minnesota 2004
2003 Star Makers Competition Winners
The Harid Conservatory Alumni
LESLIE MILLER, grew up dancing, singing and acting in Falmouth. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1990. In 2001 she was a teaching fellow and received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Choreography and Dance Performance from Smith College. Leslie has worked for the past 20 years as a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is a former Radio City Rockette and is one of the original members of Complexions Contemporary Ballet Co. directed by former Alvin Ailey stars, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. While in New York she also danced for NBC television, Disney's "Hercules," modeled couture for Geoffrey Beene in a fashion show choreographed by Doug Verone and acted in the movie "Puppet" directed by Felix Limardo and choreographed by Broadway’s Footloose choreographer A.C. Cuilla. Her dancing has taken her around the world performing in Jubilee in Las Vegas, Calendar Girls in Tokyo and her favorite show Les Etoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco, where she opened for Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole, Barry White and Earth Wind and Fire. Leslie’s teaching career has taken her around the country as well. She taught at Smith College, Broadway Dance Center and Dance Creations in New York, The Branson Preparatory School and Solano College in San Francisco and Southeast Missouri University. She has also choreographed numerous dance concerts, plays and children’s musicals including Peter Pan, Bugsy Malone, Grease and Children of Eden. Most recently she performed various roles in South Pacific, Pal Joey, Sugar and Showboat and Choreographed Seusical, the Musical, Showboat and A Year with Frog and Toad at the Naples Dinner Theater in Florida. Leslie is excited to share her wealth of knowledge and her passion for dance with all the dance students of Cape Cod.
497 Thomas Landers Road
Falmouth, MA 02536
Laura Faria, Artistic Director
Phone: 508-444-0278
