Stephanie Heroux has toured internationally as a Dancer/Dance Captain for Royal Caribbean International, and performed locally with the The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Lorraine Chapman The Company, and as a principal dancer for ACE Entertainment.  She studied with Matt Mattox and Chet Walker at The School at Jacob’s Pillow, holds a BA from Boston University in English Literature and Business Administration, a DPT from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Board Licensure as a physical therapist in MA, and is a certified instructor of the Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) and The Ellové Technique ®. 

 

Ms. Heroux is the founder and director, and a principal dancer, of Jazz Inc Dance, a Boston-based production company specializing in the preservation of jazz dance through concert and commercial theatre. Clients include 28 degrees, The Boston Design Center, Saks 5th Ave., The Boston Bruins, The Boston Red Sox, Isoci Salon, The Four Seasons, The Ritz, Music Management, the Museum of Fine Arts, and HGTV. In 2011, Jazz Inc produced BLINK at the OBERON, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Ms. Heroux, in a collaboration with local jazz musicians, and crowned one of the Top Ten Theatre Picks by The Boston Globe. Following that success, in 2014, Jazz Inc produced Escaping the Frame at the Somerville Theatre, uniquely featuring the theater’s rich history in film and stage with a unique blend of multimedia and live performances.

 

Ms. Heroux teaches master classes and choreographs for dance and theatre companies across New England and has held faculty positions at The Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, Boston Youth Moves, Green Street Studios, Ballet Arts Center of Winchester, Emerson College, Harvard University, the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Studies, and was director of the Jeannette Neill Children’s Dance Program. 

 

When not in the studio, Ms. Heroux provides physical therapy services to clients at a local outpatient clinic and in performing arts venues around Boston. She is a proud member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS) and presented her research in screening heterogeneous populations of dancers for injury risk assessment at the IADMS annual conference in Finland in 2018. She enjoys both teaching dancers of all ages and experience levels and treating all types of artistic athletes as a physical therapist, specializing in preventive care, injury reduction education, and rehabilitation.  We are happy to welcome Stephanie to the MSDC Team.