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About the Artist

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

Tag Archives: Dance

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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Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua

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...

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The National – a Beautiful Brooklyn Musical Muse

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...

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“Big Eater”-David Neumann at Hunter College

“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...

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Welcome to my very new blog!

Hello Everyone! I’m happy to introduce myself and my blog to you! Here you can read up and view all that I am doing and dancing. I encourage anyone; dancers, dance enthusiasts, and dance newbies-to comment, communicate, and connect. Here you will find articles, reviews, current uploads of works in progess and final shows of...

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