The exploration

of a very specific aesthetic led Lorraine Chapman to found Lorraine Chapman, The Company, Inc. (LCTC) in 2002 as a logical next step to her already impressive achievements as an independent choreographer. Chapman's understanding of the art form, as well as a penetrating study of life and of people, has always been a powerful source of inspiration in her work. She embraces and executes musicality with a theatrical approach, and explores the versatility of the speed in which one can express themselves through movement. There is an inner fear, an inner joy, an inner passion, an inner ambivalence, and an inner contradictory experience that drives the outer physicality of her work. Her choreographic vocabulary possesses a strong, personal signature which challenges dancers and audiences both kinetically and emotionally. Through her dynamic movement and compelling theatricality she is able to blend together even the most incongruous ingredients.

LCTC has developed a solid reputation in New England where it performs regularly, and is one of Boston's leading modern dance companies. It has been produced five times in six years by Boston's leading presenter of dance, World Music/CRASHarts. Bebe Miller chose LCTC to perform in Dancing Nor'easters International Festival of Arts and Ideas New Haven, Connecticut. The Vox Consort, Greater Boston's Choral Consortium, invited LCTC to create original choreography for and perform in their production of J.S. Bach's St. John Passion. To present three different self-produced concerts in the Boston area, LCTC has been generously awarded grants by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and LEF Foundation New England, and funded as well by several private patrons. A Choreographer's Project Fellowship from the Summer Stages Dance Festival in Massachusetts led LCTC to be presented in New York City by David Parker & The Bang Group at the West End Theater where The Bang Group is in residence. Chapman received a commission from the Festival Ballet of Providence, Rhode Island, not to mention one from the Alberta Ballet in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where she shared the bill with internationally acclaimed solo artist Margie Gillis.

Lorraine Chapman is an instructor of dance education and the Assistant Artistic Director of the pre-professional division at the Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester. She is the most recent recipient of the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project and the Lab Artist Program hosted by the Vermont Performance Lab.

Lorraine Chapman is one of Dance Magazine's 25 To Watch 2008.