Professional performing & recording artist, songwriter, dancer, La’Toya Princess Jackson began her professional career in the ballet world at Boston Ballet as as teaching faculty for the Boston Ballet School. Additionally, she was responsible for writing the ballet curriculum for the community programs and managing ECI on Location, a program which provided free ballet classes in Boston Public Schools and community centers throughout the city of Boston. Trained by Luciano in the ballet curriculum for the Children’s program at Boston Ballet, she continues her artistic development in classical ballet while teaching others.
She began her dance training at Ballethnic Academy of Dance and danced in the Ballethnic Youth Ensemble where she trained in in classical ballet, jazz, African and modern dance under the direction of Waverly Lucas and Nena Gilreath. She joined the preprofessional dance ensemble–Ballethnic Youth Ensemble– and participated in the Arthur Mitchell Project receiving instruction from Mr. Arthur Mitchell in advanced master classes and workshops. She has danced in several ballet productions including Ballethnic Dance Company’s Urban Nutcracker, Jazzy Sleeping Beauty, Flyin’ West, and The Leopard Tale.
She is a recent graduate of Harvard University. Intersecting studies in the Harvard Dance Program, the Department of Music, and the Theater, Dance, Media department at Harvard, her interdisciplinary focus includes the study of music, dance and performance. As a graduate student she engaged in performance research under the direction of senior faculty in the Theater, Dance, Media department at Harvard. She was also a company member in the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company and a dancer in the Harvard Dance Project, a faculty-led performance company at Harvard University. She has performed in several Theater, Dance, Media department productions including: Wunder, Beauty & Failure, and The Owl Answers. Additionally, she wrote, produced and performed in the original ballet production Vanity Lane: The Ballet with the support of Black C.A.S.T. and the Office for the Arts at Harvard and was one of the lyricists and composers for Black C.A.S.T.’s original musical /underground which premiered on the Loeb Mainstage at the American Repertory Theater.