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Beth Fecteau, Artistic Director

Ms. Fecteau, who founded Nacre Dance Company in 2008, has been a performer, dance educator, and arts administrator in the Capital District since 1985. She trained with the New Jersey Ballet, The Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, and is a graduate of the Performing Arts School of Philadelphia. Ms. Fecteau graduated from Russell Sage with a B.A. in Visual and Performing Arts (dance concentration) and in 1996, created the non-profit Youth Ballet Company and Dance Eclectic. Beth served as the Director of Arts and Programming for the National Museum of Dance and founded the School of the Arts, which is now a sustaining force for the Museum. In addition to directing Nacre, Ms. Fecteau serves as an adjunct faculty member at Adirondack Community College and teaches part time at Myers Dance Center in Saratoga, Albany Dance & Fitness, and Art in Motion in Albany. "The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words." – Doris Humphrey

 

 

 

 

Danielle Tremblay, Program Director / Graphic Designer

Ms. Tremblay started her dancing career with Youth Ballet Company at the age of three and continued performing with Ms. Fecteau through high school. She is also involved in the Martial arts, where she is a third degree black belt in U.S. Budokai Karate. In 2012, she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in Graphic Design. She also received her AAS in Communication design in 2010. She was also able to study abroad at Nottingham Trent Univesity in England in 2011. Her experiences and dance have always inspired Danielle's career as a graphic designer and she is thrilled to be so closely involved in dance and performing once again. "One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye." – The Little Prince

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lindsay Bogan, Company Manager

Lindsay Bogan began her dance career with the Youth Ballet Company where she studied Ballet and Modern dance. She has performed in numerous productions, repertory concerts and Arts-in Education programs with YBC and began teaching under Beth Hartle Fecteau in 2002. In 2003, Lindsay attended the American Academy of Ballet Summer School of Excel-lence, and has participated in their Performance Awards program. She has since performed as a guest artist with Maude Baum and Company in NYC and the School of the Arts at the Na- tional Museum of Dance. At the Museum of National Dance in Saratoga, Lindsay supervised rental of the facility and was instrumental in merging Youth Ballet Company with School of the Arts. She was responsible for assisting in the research and installation of several exhibits, as well as inducting Arthur and Katherine Murray, Bob Fosse, The New Dance Group and Bill T. Jones into the Hall of Fame. "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." - Hopi Indian Saying

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Follano, Administrative Assistant

Though a relative newcomer to the dance world, Mr. Follano has long appreciated the fine arts and is excited to be a part of Nacre's work. Andrew is currently pursuing a Master's degree in both Information Science and English Literature, fields whose unique strengths he hopes to bring together to support Nacre in its mission. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats