Personal Profile:
Anne is a coach and choreographer who brings her experience off the ice to the athletes at The Skating Club. She is a coach and choreographer with Athlete Centered Skating as well as a dance instructor in The Studio at the Skating Club. As a triple Master Rated coach through the PSA, Anne has coached and choreographed extensively across the country where her educational pursuits took her. She has coached and choreographed for multiple of her team’s athletes, including athletes on the National Development Team. Anne specializes in spins, performance, and choreography, blending the technical and artistic aspects of skating and fostering creativity and exploration while maximizing point potential for her athletes. Before returning to Boston in 2018, Anne worked with Figure Skating in Harlem and the Seattle Skating Club as a coach, choreographer, and dance coach in many facets of their programs. As a performer herself, she was accepted to Disney on Ice, Ice Theater of New York, and has skated with JoySkate Productions.

Away from the ice, Anne blurs the definitions of music and dance as a composer, choreographer, performer, and educator, a vanguard of interdisciplinary performance art. She has work has been featured nationally and internationally, both as a performer and as a composer. Anne is an Assistant Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music, having previously taught at Manhattan School of Music and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

Formal Education:
DMA Classical Composition, Manhattan School of Music
MFA Dance, University of the Arts
MM Classical Composition, Manhattan School of Music
BA Music, Wellesley College
BA Spanish, Wellesley College

Coaching Philosophy:
Anne is an athlete-centered coach who uses skating and dance as integral tools to empower individuals to reach their highest potential on and off the ice. Through safe technique, humor, and exploration, Anne seeks to instill in her students the values of persistence, patience, and sportsmanship, imparting the importance of manageable goal-setting, accountability, and optimistic thinking. No matter the athletes’ goals, they learn to have healthy relationships with success and failure, build relationships with their peers, and celebrate their individuality and improvements on a daily and long-term basis.