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About the Artist

Mary Ellen Carafice is a NYC based post modern dancer | choreographer and current student at Hunter College.

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Mary Ellen Carafice is a Brooklyn based Dancer | Choreographer. Hailing from Rochester NY, Carafice holds an AS in social and behavioral science & is currently earning her BA in dance from Hunter College.
Carafice has performed works by Ivy Baldwin and Monica Bill Barnes and held a creative & technical internship in 2009 at Bearnstow, supervised by Ruth Grauert and Bebe Miller. Carafice is a current HCDC Company Manager and President of the Hunter MoDern Dance Club.

Doug Elkins Teaching at DNA in August

I just came from DNA Let me tell you, Doug Elkins is a FUN teacher and a HARD worker. I mean player. He thanked us all for playing with him today. He spoke fondly and frequently about his two children, and also peppered the class with fun fictional anecdotes such as Martha Grahm or Doris...

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Nazareth College Dance Fest Opening Ceremony Video!

Whew that was a mouthful! I shot all SORTS of video last week-Please enjoy as I upload the final cuts! ALSO-I am attempting to embed these videos into my blog with no current luck. Please excuse the linking, I’ll do my best to find the plug in I need. Happy Dancing! Nazareth College Dance Festival...

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Streb & Fagan, Blueberries & Pineapple

My Dance Lovers, I hope you have found your hot Thursday in July well… I found myself talking with Elizabeth Streb this afternoon, watching an open rehearsal of STREB:FORCES, and witnessing a wonderful talk between Garth Fagan and Elizabeth Streb. There is just so much to talk about here in tonight’s post…so much to distill....

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Busking with Bill

Hello Dance Lovers! Inlet Dance Theater I was late to Nazareth’s second edition of Dancing on the Grass…a free event in which members from the local community present their art on the beautiful lawns of the Nazareth Campus…with good reason, of course! I attended Bill Wade/Inlet Dance Theater‘s master class “Busking”. Wade and his dancers...

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Nazareth College Dance Festival Opening Ceremony

My Dear Dance Loving Readers! If you weren’t in class or in bed at 11:15 this morning, you could have been at the opening ceremony of the Festival! (provided your bed is in Rochester) The lawn of the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery was littered with local news team cameras, community members and lots of kids....

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A Dancer and Her Camera go to Rochester NY for a Festival!

Hi All! I will be reporting LIVE from the Nazareth College Dance Festival in Rochester NY! Here is my opening title for this week’s videos Check out the Nazareth College Dance Fest Website! See you at the events or here at modern-dancer.com! Happy Dancing ~Mary Ellen

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BOS Cabaret 2010-Come see ‘Enlighta’

Hey there Dance fans I’m performing this Saturday, June 6th in BOS Cabaret 2010!!! If you are in Bushwick you should totally check it out. It’s a huge neighborhood festival of all the arts: dance, puppetry, visual art, performance art, etc… The piece I am in is titled “Enlighta” and is collaboratively choreographed by Katherine...

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The Anatomy of an Emotion

http://www.emotionallyvague.com/index.php

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Dance Jamz

I’m sitting at my small writing desk in bushwick after an evening of friends and good conversation…it was a lovely beginning to the weekend, but now? Now it’s time to dance folks. My friends and colleagues Melissa West and Olsi Gjeci have begun a little group that you should join on facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=117517754936585&ref=ts Come join...

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The morning of my Tech 4 final…

and I just wanted to say hullo and how are you. I’ve got some big things planned for this summer…another movie is in the works and of course so much dancing. I am heading to my final soon and I want to make sure I really use my blog for all it is worth-or rather,...

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