For Information about Ipswich Moving Company Studio classes and workshops call the Studio at 978-356-5565. To get information about specific classes contact the instructor.

Janet Taisey Craft, Director & Modern Dance – 978-356-5565
Jenny Carlson, Director of Dance School – 978-356-5565
Adrienne Mincz, Pilates – 978- 836-0940
Lakshmi Linda Sirois – Yoga, Expressive Arts Therapy- 978-356-5956

Studio Faculty Bios

Janet Taisey Craft, (choreographer & director) is founder and artistic director of The Ipswich Moving Company. Her choreography has been presented in the US, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, and at the International Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. She has conducted numerous artist-in-residence dance projects in public schools over the last twenty years. Janet is Head of the Dance Program at Emerson College in Boston. Her work was selected to appear in the First International Aerial Dance Festival in 1992. In addition to creating aerial dances, Craft has choreographed and presented over forty dance theatre works, concert dances, and collaborative installation projects. Janet has lived in Ipswich for over twenty-five years where she has drawn inspiration for many of her dances and theatre pieces.

Jenny Carlson (teacher & dancer) graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in dance. She has taught dance in public schools, summer arts camps and dance schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts. She dances with The Ipswich Moving Company and FlipSide Dance Theatre. She is the Director of the Children and Teen Dance School at the Ipswich Moving Company.

Adrienne Mincz (Pilates teacher & director) is a Certified Stott Pilates instructor currently teaching in Manchester by the Sea, Boston, and Ipswich. Adrienne is a professional dancer on the faculty of the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio and is Artistic Director of Five Flights Up Dance Company, a Boston based contemporary dance company.

Lakshmi Linda Sirois (yoga teacher & therapist) is an Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She received a M.A. in Dance/Movement Therapy in 1987, and was certified as a Kundalini Yoga Instructor in 1995. She has practiced and studied Authentic Movement since 1980, when it became her favorite way to learn about herself, and it has been her specialty in her Expressive Arts Therapy practice since 1992.