Faculty
Meredith Wells
Meredith Wells has been educating youth in the art of ballet since 2003. She has taught at well-renowned ballet schools, recreational programs and public schools as well as coaching gymnasts and adult students. After years of exploring many outlets to share her knowledge, she is overjoyed to have created développé, a unique dance education program to foster the technique, desire and life skills that aspiring young dancers need to make their way in the world of dance.
Meredith’s ballet path started in Minneapolis where she studied at Ballet Arts Minnesota. Opting to pursue a college education post high school, she went on to Hampshire College where she focused her studies on child psychology and movement therapy. During her second year of college, she found herself dreaming of nothing but dancing professionally, so she took leave from her education and pursued a career on the stage. She moved to Atlanta, GA where she danced with Atlanta Festival Ballet for the ‘02-’03 season. In 2003 Meredith moved to Newport, RI to join Island Moving Company (IMC) where she was a company member until her retirement in 2013. It was there that she began her professional teaching career; working with the students of Newport Academy of Ballet, Rosemary’s School of Dance and teaching in the local public schools through the outreach program that IMC provided. When not teaching or on contract, she worked as a guest artist for Spindle City Ballet and Tony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker. In ‘13, Meredith retired from a full-time performance career, married her husband Jon and moved to Natick, MA. Since moving to MA, she has taught for NorthEast Rhythmic Gymnastics, Suzanne’s Dance Connection, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Koltun Ballet Boston, Revolution Trapeze and has taught open classes at The Dance Complex and Green Street Studios. She loves nothing more than helping dancers to find the potential that is within themselves and is beyond excited to have created a space where she can do that for her dancers every day.
Olivia Coombs
Olivia began studying ballet under Jessica Wilson throughout her childhood. After high school, she studied for two years at the Alonzo King Lines Ballet training program where is she not only developed her technique, but began to push the limits on classical ballet and began to recognize her passion for contemporary dance. In 2013 Olivia apprenticed with Dawson Wallace Dance Project in Denver for one season. The following year she performed work by Ismael Ivo as part of a special research project at ImpulsTanz in Vienna, Austria and Sao Paulo, Brazi. In 2018 she became a founding company member of Boston Dance Theater, founded, and under the direction of Jessie Jeanne Stinnett. Coombs since has performed works by Jessie Jeanne Stinnett, Yin Yue, Sidra Bell, Shannon Gillen, Micaela Taylor, Rena Butler, Marco Goecke and co-artistic director Itzik Galili.
Olivia has been teaching throughout Boston Dance Theaters’ educational programs, and last year taught at Concord Academy. Olivia is so thrilled to be starting with Développé to continue to translate her knowledge to the next generation!
Alexandria Nunweiler
Alexandria Nunweiler is a contemporary choreographer, performer, and educator based in Boston, MA. Her movement, described by Dance Informa as “grace with power,” is rooted in history, human experience, and the fine line between darkness and humor. Alexandria earned her B.A. in Dance from Winthrop University where her thesis “Valhallveien” represented the university at the American College Dance Festival Southeast in 2014. She also holds her MSc in International Business from Hult International Business School, studying in both Boston, MA and Shanghai, China, as well as her 200-hour RYT which she brings into both yoga and dance spaces as a framework for how she organizes and translates movement practices.
As a choreographer and producer, Alexandria’s work has been featured up and down the east coast in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, BOOM Fringe Festival, Dance Complex’s A Drop in the Bucket, NACHMO Boston, and the Charlotte New Music Festival Dance Co-Lab, among others. She also co-produces the annual series ‘CURE8’ alongside collaborator Ashlea Sovetts, which premiered in 2022 in Cambridge, MA and has since extended into Charleston, SC. Alexandria’s work has been funded through New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the South Carolina Arts Commission and Alternate ROOTS.
In performance, Alexandria works within The Click, performing in works devised by Kristin Wagner (make light: or how I survived it all), Lonnie Stanton (Emotive Land), and Angelina Benitez (My Guide to Feeling It All). Her past performance work has been with Brian Feigenbaum, Tony Guglietti, THE MARK dance company, Martha Connerton/Kinetic Works, and staibdance. As an educator, Alexandria holds space for intuitive learning and dives deeply into improvisation as a mode of movement understanding.
Abigale Bilodeau
Abigale Bilodeau is from North Reading, Massachusetts. She trained at Wilmington Dance Academy and Koltun Ballet Boston. Abigale attended Butler University and graduated in May of 2023 with a BFA in Dance. At Butler she performed in many classical ballets such as The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Swan Lake, as well as in original works by the faculty. Abigale went on to dance with Connecticut’s Ballet Theatre Company for their 2023-2024 season and was the administrator of their Community Enrichment Program. There she performed various roles in classical ballets such as The Nutcracker and Snow White, as well as in an original work by Derek Brockington. Abigale has been freelancing in the Boston area since the fall of 2024. Her freelance experience includes North Atlantic Ballet’s Dracula in 2024, José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker in 2024, and Safe Haven Ballet’s Aladdin in 2025. In June of 2025, Abigale attended the Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Geneva, NY where she performed a co-choreographed duet with her sister titled vignettes from sisterhood. Abigale had the pleasure of performing alongside the students of développé in Clara’s Voyage in 2025 and she is so excited to teach them this fall!