Dance Theater of New England

Ms. Bianca

Deborah Stanton-Bianca,
Ballet, Jazz, Choreographer, Artistic Director

Ms. Bianca is an accomplished dancer, teacher and choreographer with over a decade of teaching experience. A former student of the Boston Ballet, Deborah has studied classical dance under the direction of E. Virginia Williams, Violette Verdy, James Capp, and Bruce Wells. She has appeared in five seasons of the Nutcracker Suite with the Boston Ballet and performed with the Dance Theater of Harlem. As a scholarship student and apprentice, Deborah won a soloist role in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre II’s production of “The Sleeping Beauty” and also toured extensively with the company. An accomplished vocalist and triple threat, Deborah has performed as a singer/dancer in Theater-by-the-Sea’s Show Boat. She is a former member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, in Boston, Massachusetts, Carnegie Hall, in New York City, and at the orchestra’s summer residence in Lenox, Massachusetts. Deborah is currently a Master Teacher for The State Ballet of Rhode Island’s summer dance program. She is a former Artist in Residence for the Sage School, where she co-founded the Arts Department and served as co-director of its summer theater program. Before opening her own school, Ms. Bianca taught for the New England Dance Academy and MJT Dance Company where she served “at-risk” children in Boston Public Schools.