Tommy Neblett

Tommy Neblett has been in the dance profession for over 30 years as a performer and a choreographer, educator, and administrator. In addition to his work at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, he is artistic director along with his wife, Diane Arvanites, of Prometheus Dance and the Elders Ensemble, which is a group of post-professional dancers aged 60–93. 

As a performer, Neblett has danced primarily with Dan Wagoner and Dancers, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Concert Dance Company of Boston, Maryland Dance Theater, and Prometheus Dance. Prometheus Dance has been named one of the year's 10 best by the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Boston Phoenix newspapers five times, and the company was recently named company-in-residence at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. Neblett has also performed in films, fashion shows, nightclubs, operas, and theater productions. Most recently, he choreographed and played the part of Damon in Company One Theatre’s production of Colossal at the Calderwood Pavilion.

Neblett's and Arvanites’s dances have been performed at many venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, among others. They have been performed up and down the East Coast as well as in Spain, France, Denmark, Venezuela, Ecuador, and China. Their work in opera has included Nixon in China, Alceste, and The Pearl Fishers for Opera Boston, and Rinaldo and Idomeneo for the Boston Opera Collaborative.

Neblett has previously been on the dance faculties of Harvard University, Emerson College, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Dance Complex, and the Oure Idraetshojskole in Denmark. He earned two bachelor's degrees from James Madison University: a B.A. in physical education with a major in dance and a B.A. in communications with a major in theater.