Mary Ellen Carafice is a NYC based post modern dancer | choreographer and current student at Hunter College.
Hiya Everyone! I’ll be Performing in two guest artist pieces: Ivy Baldwin’s ‘Hunting Party’ & Monica Bill Barnes ‘Untitled’. We will also be premiering student works, including my newest creation “Knowing you is Complicated” I would be honored to see anyone at my show! March 25,26,27th at 8pm Tickets are $15 ($10 for students and...
Tonight I was reminded of what human bodies can do. I witnessed nine break dancers bring their style and sequential movement into the theater and mind of the NYC modern dance community. I had seen hip hop incorporated into formal ‘modern’ dance performances before (Doug Elkin at DTW last year), and while brilliant, Elkin’s piece...
Meet my dancer Gilbert. At rehearsal today, I asked if he could sing. I really want him to sing and dance-making the music and the movements with his own body. He told me he wasn’t sure if he could do it, but like always, Gilbert gives his all. This was a brief line by line...
Hey Folks! Guess what dancer has two thumbs and is going to the Northeast Regional Conference of the American College Dance Festival? That’s Right! THIS DANCER! I’ll be jet packing out of Brooklyn and crash landing in Erie, PA with my fellow Hunter College Dance Company Comrades… What? I like my entrances to be dramatic...
So here is a band that I was introduced to last year, and quite literally, I listen The National at least once a week. Their lyrics are vulnerable, haunting, and honest. I just cannot get enough of their sound. It lounges around inside your mind like some beautiful, intoxicating crush. Super chill beats, horns, violins...
“Hey, you should go to see David Neumann tonight.” Maura Donohue is a faculty member of the Hunter College Dance Department. She ran into Neumann on a Sunday afternoon at Hunter and discovered he currently was in residency at the Hunter College Theater Department. Wait… The theater department? How come the Hunter College Dance Department...
