Leadership
Jaime McGovern
Founder, Artistic Director
Jaime McGovern is a dancer, teacher and choreographer born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She trained at multiple local dance studios before beginning her training at Boston Youth Moves in 2009. The program, under the direction of Jeannette Neill and Jim Viera, helped her realize her passion for dance and her desire to pursue it as a professional career. In 2014, she received the Dorothy Rogers Connelly Memorial Dance Scholarship, which is given to a deserving student annually. Jaime continued her training at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, under the direction of Susan Jaffe and Brenda Daniels, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Contemporary Dance in 2018. While at UNCSA, Jaime performed works by Sean Sullivan, Brenda Daniels, Larry Keigwin, Robyn Mineko Williams, Dawn Marie Bazemore, Merce Cunningham, Casey Noblett, Shen Wei Dance Arts and Martha Graham and many others. She received Chancellor’s Award for Excellence scholarships, awarded to her for both excellence in dancing and academics. Jaime also attended the Boston Conservatory, Windhover Dance and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater summer programs on scholarship, where she had the pleasure of working with Ray Mercer, Adrienne Hurd, Sidra Bell, Clarice Young and the Dusan Tynek Dance Theater among others.
Since graduation, Jaime has moved to New York City in pursuit of performing and creating. She has performed with “Creators, Life, Movement,” under the direction of Karen Arceneaux, has performed works by David Parsons and has founded Vega Dance Project.
Jeannette Neill
Artistic Director
Jeannette founded and was the Artistic Director of the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. For almost 40 years, her studio was a supportive and encouraging training ground for aspiring and recreational dancers. Jeannette was also Co-Founder and Executive Director of Boston Youth Moves, a pre-professional teen dance program. In addition, she was one of the Artistic Directors of The Boston Summer Dance Festival