MAGGIE BERGMAN
MICHELLE CHASSÉ
Michelle Chassé trained with the Boston Ballet School and Maestro Vincenzo Celli and was on scholarship at the School of American Ballet. She graduated cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Boston Conservatory, where she was the first recipient of the prestigious Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Award, and later received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. She has studied and performed with ballet, concert dance, and Broadway legends from around the world.
Chassé is Head of Musical Theater Dance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and has directed and choreographed numerous productions for its esteemed musical theater program, including Candide, The Wild Party, and The Pajama Game, for which efforts she has received critical acclaim within Boston and New York ranks. She received a 2014 ArtsImpulse Best Musical
nomination for her direction of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s On The Town and was awarded Best Choreography for the same production. Her work on Le Cabaret Grimm, featured in the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival, earned her an honorable mention at that festival’s awards ceremony, and in that same year her concert dance piece “Red Smoke Rises” was performed by Boston’s Urbanity Dance company at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. In 2016, 2018, and 2023 Chassé directed and choreographed Catch Me If You Can, A Chorus Line, and Sweet Charity to critical acclaim; this success was repeated with her production of Swing! at the Calderwood Theater in 2022.
Chassé has choreographed and performed in numerous films and industrials including What’s Your Number?, Intel, Puma, Reebok. She can be seen in movies, television series, music videos and commercials including Dream Lover, The Gilded Age, “Only You” with
Michael Crawford, Unlikely Suspects, and Country Kitchen.
Internationally known for her master classes in musical theater dance, Chassé created and continues to direct the acclaimed Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Musical Theater Dance Intensive (MTDI) summer program, which is attended by dance students from around the world. The original choreography and stage direction that she created in 2020 for Disney PRIDE In Concert, a concert spectacular featuring the classic Disney songbook and curated excerpts from 42 Disney films, can be seen in performances by gay men’s choruses across the country.
Her ongoing work in choreography and stage direction for such internationally recognized ensembles as the Boston Pops Orchestra have received accolades from audiences and critics alike.