Debs Grammatic
Ballet

Deborah Grammatic began her ballet training with the Seacoast Ballet Company, and then trained with both Ballet Theatre Workshop and Ballet New England under scholarship. She danced with the UNH Dance Company for two years in high school at the invitation of the director of ballet. As a student she attended many summer programs including Ballet Magnificat and Ballet Austin, where she was asked by both companies to stay on to be a company trainee. After dancing the title role in The Sleeping Beauty as a senior in high school she was asked to join Ballet New England’s professional company, which she did for 3 years.   Deborah then went on to join both Boston Dance Company and Northeastern Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer.   She performed leading roles in The Nutcracker, Carmina Burana, Paquita, Sleeping Beauty, Les Corsaire, and Dracula.  She was also a sought after guest artist, performing the roles of the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty for many companies throughout the seacoast area including Melrose Youth Ballet, Northern Ballet Theater, and Sole City Dance.  In 2009, Deborah was a guest artist for Portland Ballet Company’s Giselle production, jumping into a soloist role two weeks before the show was performed.  She was asked to join Portland Ballet as a professional company member in 2010 and was a company member for 6 years. She was featured in many performances including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Giselle, La Bayadere, Boy Meets Girl, and as the Sugar Plum Fairy and The Snow Queen in The Victorian Nutcracker. The Portland Press Herald wrote that she performed Sugarplum “with refined joyfulness and precision”.  They also wrote that she had “quicksilver split leaps, neat beats and turns” and was “elastic and precise”.  She was called “stunning” partnering with Joseph Jefferies. “As the Snow Prince and Princess, Joseph Jefferies and Deborah Grammatic were extremely strong.  Grammatic was snowy, crisp and light, and Jefferies partnered her with grace.  Their final lift was magically inventive, with a light snowfall swirling around them.”  She retired from performing in 2016 to have her son and daughter.

Deborah has been teaching ballet since 2005, and has also been a guest teacher and choreographer for schools around the seacoast.  She started teaching for Ballet New England and went on to teach for Northeastern Ballet Theatre, Fusion Dance Academy, and Musical Arts while also running her own ballet program for homeschoolers from 2010-2018. In 2013 she became a faculty member and choreographer for Sole City Dance, and in 2018 became co-artistic director of The Nutcracker and spring ballet.  In summer of 2019 Deborah took the American Ballet Theatre teacher intensive training in NYC and became a certified teacher for levels pre-primary to level 3.