People
Faculty and Staff
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Madeleine Bonn
Artistic Director
Junichi Fukuda
Instructor
Stephanie Shumway
Instructor
Jennifer Bennett
Instructor
Board of Directors
Reiko Sono, president Senior Lecturer of Japanese, UMass Amherst
Julianne Applegate Fashion Technology Entrepreneur
Paul Dennis Associate Professor of Dance, UMass Amherst
Gopal Narayanan Professor of Astronomy, UMass Amherst
Malobi Narayanan Assistant Director, Student Affairs Technology Services, UMass Amherst
Julia Rueschemeyer Family Law Attorney and Mediator
Julianne Applegate Fashion Technology Entrepreneur
Paul Dennis Associate Professor of Dance, UMass Amherst
Gopal Narayanan Professor of Astronomy, UMass Amherst
Malobi Narayanan Assistant Director, Student Affairs Technology Services, UMass Amherst
Julia Rueschemeyer Family Law Attorney and Mediator
Jennifer Bennett is a New England based dance artist and educator. She is returning to Amherst Ballet after a decade of studying and performing in Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. Jenny has taught dance technique to youth throughout MA and Chicago, as well as creative movement in elementary schools through The San Francisco Arts Education Project and Yoga through mindfulness education at R.H. Conwell Elementary. 
enthusiastic, yet very demanding on precision and correct body alignment.
Madeleine Bonn began her classical ballet training at the age of 2 years at the RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) in California, and continued through age 19 at the San Francisco Ballet as a scholarship student. She was the recipient of the Rosalie Hellman Merit Award for outstanding achievement.
Fairy in Mateo's "Nutcracker") in such newspapers as the Boston Globe. She has also performed abroad in Romania and was a guest of the National Ballet of Mongolia.