Director, Choreographer, Dancer

Tess Saoirse Liddy

Tess Saoirse Liddy is a Boston-based special educator, dancer, and choreographer. Tess owns and directs Tess Saoirse Dance Company, an adult recreational dance company that seeks to empower adults from all levels of experience and backgrounds and provide performance opportunities throughout the New England area. Tess seeks to provide this openness and acceptance in her work as a dance teacher and an ABA-based teacher for students with disabilities in the Boston Public Schools. Tess' expertise lies in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary dance styles, and in creating accessible environments for students with disabilities of all ages. 

Choreographer and Dancer

Shirin Kuppusamy

Shirin Kuppusamy (she/her) identifies as a dancer, teacher, engineer, biologist, and lifelong learner from Atlanta, GA now residing in Boston, MA. She has extensive training in Kathak, Bollywood, Modern, and Contemporary with experience in Jazz, Ballet, and Hip Hop. Growing up she trained at Nritya Natya Kala Bharti Dance Academy and at North Atlanta Dance Academy. Upon moving to Boston for college, she's loved dancing with several college dance teams - including Olin Dance Ensemble which she co-founded with fellow TSDC company member Annabelle Platt. Post graduation, she's danced with Pantos Project Dance Ensemble, Izizwe Dance Collective, and Collective Moments Dance Company, alongside work as an independent artist and dance educator. She loves dance as a way to disconnect and release after a long day and as a form of communication. Her choreography is rooted in gesture and collaborative movement, embracing the nuance of dance beyond technique, while still valuing the details. Outside of dance, she is a computer scientist by day and loves playing with her friends' dogs and cats - though she's unfortunately yet to get her own!

Choreographer and Dancer

Kaylee Mahan

Kaylee graduated from Roger Williams University with a major in dance, She has experience teaching adults as well as children ages 2-teens in creative movement, ballet, tap, acro, jazz, and modern genres. She holds the Acrobatic Arts Module 1 Certification as well as a NYU Performing Arts Industry Essentials Certification. During college she studied abroad in London and trained under Stephen Pelton, Tory Trotter, and Renaud Wiser. She is the founder of Collective Moments Dance Company. Kaylee has most recently choreographed for NACHMOBoston 2023, DanceWorks in Progress Metamorphosis Dance Company, Dance For World Community Festival, and aMaSSiT choreography lab. She has performed in numerous productions including works by Shura Baryshnikov, Sean Currran, Danielle Davidson, Ori Flomin, Christina Robson, and Renaud Wiser.

Choreographer and Dancer

Laporsha Dees

Hi my name is Laporsha and I have been dancing since I was about 6 years old. I’ve trained in almost every dance style but my favorite style would have to be Hip Hop and Modern. Fun fact, in college I was Captain for a Caribbean dance team!

Choreographer and Dancer

Lindsay Gibbons

Lindsay Gibbons is a New England based dancer and choreographer. She graduated summa cum laude from Keene State College, receiving bachelor’s degrees in both psychology and dance with a specialization in choreography and performance. While at Keene State College, she trained under Cynthia McLaughlin, Sarah Lass, Molly Fletcher-Lynch and Meredith Bove. She has had the pleasure of performing in the original work of Jesse Jean Stinett, Boris Willis and Ellen Oliver, among others. She is also a member of Collective Moments Dance Company. Outside of performing, she works full-time as a teacher’s assistant for a public high school while also teaching and choreographing for local dance studios. Lindsay’s choreography aims to explore topics of personal importance through dynamic movements, risk taking and creativity. She seeks to honor her dancers as individuals while simultaneously offering them a safe space to step outside their comfort zones. She is thrilled to be dancing with Tess Soairise Dance Company for a  second season of meeting, learning and creating with other local artists!

Choreographer and Dancer

Annabelle Platt

Annabelle started dancing at the age of 4 at the Dance Place in Newburyport, MA, and continued with Ipswich Moving Company (now High Street Studios) in Ipswich, MA. She joined the Youth Dance Ensemble there from 7th grade through 12th grade, and assistant-taught many classes for younger students. She was also on her high school's FIRST robotics team, which led her to study software engineering in college. She attended Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA, where she co-founded Olin Dance Ensemble in her first year with fellow TSDC dancer Shirin Kuppusamy. After graduating Olin with a B.S. in Engineering, Annabelle is working as a software engineer at PTC Onshape in Boston, while also keeping up her love for choreography and dance in TDSC.   

Dancer

Audrey Lehrer

Audrey Lehrer is excited to be coming back to the stage after a nine year hiatus! Audrey began dancing when she was 11 years old and majored in dance at Mount Holyoke College. She then went on to provide administrative support for a professional contemporary dance company in Sarasota. FL and has now moved on to a new professional space in the consulting field. Audrey is also a composer and has composed professionally on multiple occasions. 

Dancer

Laurel Rodriguez Mitton

Laurel Rodriguez Mitton (she/her) is an engineer, dancer, and maker originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She started dancing at age 3 with the Shely Pack Dancers, taking classes and competing in various styles of dance. In college she danced with Olin Dance Ensemble and is excited to expand her involvement in the Boston dance scene at TSDC! When not dancing, you can find her building systems for the Space Station, browsing the farmers market, or checking out way too many books from the library.

Dancer

Brianna Rainville

I joined TSDC as dance has always been a form of creative expression and therapy. I started dancing at 7 years old and now 2 1/2 decades later it still brings so much joy. As my 9-5 has always been some kind of position fighting the climate crisis, having this outlet keeps me going and helps me to remain grounded. 

Dancer

Kelsey Clausing

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I fell in love with ballet in elementary school. I danced ballet and modern throughout high school and college, including minoring in Dance and Performance Studies while completing my undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley. I moved to Boston to begin a PhD, and while I currently devote most of my time to my neuroscience research, if you can’t find me in the lab, you’ll certainly find me in the dance studio! I’ve taken classes all over Boston and Cambridge, and I also dance with Forty Steps Dance. I’m very excited to be performing with TSDC this season! 

Choreographer and Dancer

Mayte Martinez

Hello! My name is Mayte and I am 27 years old from Boston. Dancing has been a constant source of joy in my life. I’ve been trained in a range of styles from ballet to jazz to modern to salsa. Out of all of the styles I have learned, hip hop holds a special place in my heart. In high school, a friend and I started a hip hop club and in college I was the VP of the Hip Hop club my senior year. I love dancing and you can catch me wiggling, moving, and grooving at almost any moment I can! 

I currently live in Brookline with my boyfriend. I am in administrative work and I’m an aspiring creative. A fun fact about me is that I was born on Thanksgiving.

Dancer

Marina Villeneuve

Bio: Marina Villeneuve is a dancer, amateur gymnast and journalist living in Cambridge, MA. She began dancing in kindergarten, and competed in lyrical, jazz and (a scary few times) tap for Broadway Dance Academy in Tewksbury, MA until high school. She most recently performed contemporary, floorwork and heels pieces with Troy Dance Factory in Albany, N.Y. under the direction of Nadine Medina and Dorrie Boice. She has also danced and choreographed two pieces as a member of Vivid Motion Dance Company in Portland, Maine. She enjoys taking ballet, contemporary, tango, heels and jazz classes all around Boston.

Dancer

Lissa Geggis

Lissa is a performer and a teacher. She was trained at Ipswich Moving Company School of Dance and was in their youth company through high school. She continued to dance and perform in college. In her senior year, she was chosen for a special duet by the modern dance professor, Christine Bennett. Lissa got to perform along side her childhood dance teacher in "November" a performance done through High Street Studios. Lissa is now a dance teacher and loves to help her students develop sense of self and perseverance through their movement. 

Dancer

Noelle Martin

Noelle Martin was born and raised in Milton Massachusetts and is currently taking a gap year to train for the dance industry and following plans to attend Umass Amherst for Dance Education. She has been dancing since she was 2 years old and has extensive training in Hip Hop, Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Acro. She is also intermediately trained in ball room and Aerial Fabrics. In her free time she attends drop ins at Boston Dance Studio, The Dance Complex, and Boston Ballet. Right now she is currently excited to grow and find her place in the dance world as a performer and artist. In the future she hopes to pursue choreographing pieces and empowering others to pursue their goals and achieve their fullest potential.