Erin grew up in Newton, Mass., and began her training in ballet, jazz, tap and modern at Paulette’s Ballet Studio. She also competed on the team at Gymnastics Academy of Boston as a child, and later on Newton South High School’s varsity team. She further refined her dance education at Emerson College, where she minored in Dance and received her Bachelor of Arts in New Media. Erin has danced with Boston’s Lady Panthers Dance Team, Jhumka Dance Company, Kelley Donovan & Dancers and Firelech Jewish Musical Theater. Other notable roles include swing dancing and tapping as Mother Ginger in Tony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker, and ensemble in “Hair” (Turtle Lane Playhouse), “Pippin” (Stage 284) and “Mamma Mia” (Marblehead Little Theatre), and co-producer of “Shrek The Musical Jr.” and “Frozen Jr.” Erin has taught all styles of dance to all ages and levels at Paulette’s Ballet Studio, Tony Williams Dance Center and Lucky Ten Young Talent Studio. Erin is also Graphic Designer for the JCC of the North Shore, a mom of twins, and was a teacher for Sallee Slagle’s Dance Dimensions. Erin joined Forty Steps Dance in 2009 as a dancer and was Assistant Director for a time. (2009-2020).
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Sallee Slagle, Director
Sallee Slagle has been performing and choreographing professionally for over 20 years. Since receiving her BFA from the Boston Conservatory, she has performed throughout New England, the Caribbean and abroad with a variety of dance companies, as well as her own modern company, Forty Steps Dance. Her choreography has been presented locally and internationally by the Culture Connection, North Shore Dance Alliance, Windhover Performing Arts Center, North Shore Civic Ballet Co., Somerville Theater, Majestic Cruise Lines as well as the Saint Hill European Arts Festival in England.
Slagle is currently delivering her Increasing Creativity through Movement workshop locally and abroad bringing creative dance to everyone. Sallee is the director of Dance Dimensions, a dance and fitness studio serving Nahant, Lynn and Swampscott communities.
Photos from 2014 Creatures in the Lilac Garden performance
Creatures in the Lilac Garden
Performed June 7, 2014 at the Lilac Garden in Swampscott, Mass.
Photos by Lisa Pelonzi
Creatures (2014)
Photos from Creatures (2014) – photos: Thomas Nola-Rion and Miguel Vargus
Lilac Garden performance
Forty Steps Dance inspired and delighted an audience of 75 plus with “Creatures in the Lilac Garden” on June 7th. Seven dancers brought animal magnetism to the fragrant Lilac Garden, performing sections of a new work, “Creatures”, that is “all the buzz.” The performance was funded by the Swampscott Cultural Council, and amazed young and old as the “creatures” ventured beyond the stage and into the audience bringing the interactive performance to life. Sallee Slagle, choreographer, has brilliantly portrayed the movements of creatures through the movements of the human body.
Forty Steps Dance will be performing “Creatures” in full on the evenings of July 18, 19 and 20, 2014 at Windhover Summer Dance Institute in Rockport, Mass.
Originally appeared on the Swampscott Reporter’s website at http://swampscott.wickedlocal.com/article/20140617/NEWS/140616438
Photos from 2014 Annual Spring Concert
Forty Steps Dance performed at their Annual Spring Concert, March 29, 2014. The works featured include “Accord,” “The Flood,” “Creatures,” and a solo danced by Director Sallee Slagle from “Two from Tull.”
Accord (1992)
Photos from Accord (1992), performed in 2013 and 2014 at Nahant Town Hall – photos: Thomas Nola-Rion and Miguel Vargus
Forty Steps Dance Montage 2013
Forty Steps Dance Montage from 20th Anniversary performance March 2013, Nahant Town Hall, Nahant, MA
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Fragile (2002/2011)
Photos from Fragile as performed in 2002, 2011, 2013. This original work was dedicated to all the victims and heroes of the tragedy on September 11, 2001. In 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9/11, it was revised to include a new opening section. All were touched by the events of that day and we recognize that our lives are all still affected in many ways. – photos: Leslie Jardine, Joe Puleo
Lux Aeterna
Sections of “Lux Aeterna,” Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, March 2010. Video: Timothy Bakland Videography