Meet our Faculty

 
Jaune Buisson Hebert is celebrating her eighth year as the director of  Metropolitan Dance Theatre. She works professionally throughout the Greater New Orleans area as a dancer, choreographer and performer for conventions, theatre and industrials.
    Recently, she staged critically acclaimed, sold-out productions of “White Christmas” at Le Petit Theatre (2009 Marquee Award - Best Choreography), "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" and "Miss Saigon" at Rivertown Repertory, "Some Enchanted Evening" at Southern Repertory Theatre and "Seussical the Musical" at Six Flags New Orleans ((Ambi Award for Best Choreography). She staged the critically acclaimed Big Easy, Storer Boone and Marquee Award-winner for Best Musical of 2004,“Smokey Joe’s Cafe” (Big Easy Award - Best Choreography) for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society and "Little Shop of Horrors" at Rivertown Repertory Theatre (Big Easy and Ambi Awards for Best Choreography).   She served as choreographer for Le Petit Theatre's main stage hit productions of "Grease!," "Five Guys Named Moe,"(Big Easy Award- Best Choreography). As choreographer of Le Petit's Corner Theatre, Jaune has choreographed sold-out productions of "Snoopy!," "Bye, Bye Birdie," "Free To Be...You And Me," "Honk!", "Cinderella," "Schoolhouse Rock, Live!" and "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".
      Coming from a family of dancers, Jaune grew up dancing in her mother’s dance studio and began her teaching there.  She went on to achieve top awards in competition being named the American Dance Team School solo winner and the Overture to the Cultural Season dance scholarship.  She moved to Metropolitan Dance Theatre as a student to advance her training and was invited to join the faculty.  She served as the lowerschool instructor for several years for before changing duties as director of the school. Jaune has studied dance in New York at Broadway Dance Center, The Ailey School, Steps and in Jackson at the International Ballet Competition. 
      One of  her teaching highlights was working as the dance clinician with Tony Award winner Chita Rivera and Emmy Award winning choreographer Dee Dee Wood for the Jefferson Parish Gifted and Talented Theatre Workshops. Additionally, she has taught throughout the U.S. as a dance instructor and adjunctor for Dance Teachers United, Dance Masters and the National Dance Association.  Her work has been seen at Mount Carmel Academy, Jesuit High School, Archbishop Rummel High School, Holy Cross, Southeastern Louisiana University and Sacred Heart.
   Her performance credits include the Superbowl XXXI Halftime Show, "White Christmas","Aida", "Hello Dolly!", "Anything Goes", "Cinderella", "Chicago", "Leader of the Pack", "George M!", “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” all at Le Petit , "The Will Rogers Follies" with Tulane Summer Lyric and performances with the Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Rivertown Repertory, UNO and a national commercial for Louisiana Tourism featuring Chris Paul.  She has a B.A. in Drama and Communications from the University of New Orleans and teaches dance at Metairie Park Country Day School.