MMC Dance alumni, Lily Sheppard ’22, Ragin Smith ’20, and Diovanna Obafanmilayo ’16 were recently featured in Crossroads, a curated series presented by the arts organization Pioneers Go East Collective.
Deena Marcum Selko ’01 has been named the new artistic director of The Academy at Perry-Mansfield, an arts education nonprofit in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Associate Professor of Dance Catherine Cabeen and senior Bella Mittenthal ’23 each presented work at the New York State Dance Education Association’s 2023 Winter Conference: Dance & Pride.
Adjunct faculty member Mary Ann Lamb’s cast of her piece for our ’22 Fall Mainstage, titled “Jazz Man,” performed at NYCDAF’s Destiny Rising at The Joyce.
Dance alum Taylor Hollingsworth ’21 will be featured in WAXworks, the Williamsburg Art neXus’s performance showcase, on December 18. The event will be held at Triskelion Arts.
In October 2022, Dance alum Lavy ’21 premiered a collaborative work-in-progress titled “FOLLOW FACE” at the Terre Dance Collective showcase Layers V.4. The program, held at New York City’s TADA! Youth Theater, was part of the Emerging Artists Theater’s New Works Series.
If you tuned into the Today show on October 27, you might have recognized a familiar face: MMC Dance alum Michael Bryan Wang ’18. Michael made his Broadway debut this August in the ensemble of the hit musical Beetlejuice and joined the cast in performing the song “Beautiful Sound” live for the Today audience.
Bella Mittenthal ’23 majoring in BFA Dance (Choreography and Modern) with a minor in Graphic Design will be presenting her work titled “…does that make sense?” at the American Heart Association Fundraiser this April.
Iris Parke ’23 double major in BA Dance (Body, Science, and Motion) and a Biomedical Sciences won a First Place Award at highly competitive symposium for undergraduate research.
Mariah Reives ’18 has joined the cast of Funny Girl. Revies began dancing as a child in North Carolina, where she also attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. After moving to New York, she graduated from Marymount Manhattan with a B.A. in Teaching Dance Arts.
She has also appeared on television in “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,” performed with Lin Manuel Miranda, and was featured in a MAC Cosmetics commercial, among other spots.
Dzul Dance, a dance and circus company with pre-Hispanic Mayan cultural themes, based out of NYC and Mexico performs this weekend at New York Live Arts.
Dance Alum Jaqlin Medlock ’07 and Adjunct Professor Brandon Collwes (Cunningham) perform with the Stephen Petronio Company at New York City Center in this year’s Fall for Dance Program 2.
Multiple Dance Alum Featured in Dance Spirit Magazine
October 15
Dance Alum Samantha Butts `19, Lauryn Hayes `21, Jacob Larsen `16 and Lexi Garcia `16 are featured in Dance Magazine’s ‘Diversify Your Training and Open New Doors at Marymount Manhattan College’.
Dance faculty member Keenen Thomas (Embodied Africanist Aesthetics) performs in The LayeRhythm Experiment & Guests at the 92nd Street Y monthly this season.
MMC Dance alum Gracie Anderson `19 has joined the upcoming North American tour of Cats and has become the production’s Dance Captain and Swing. While a student at MMC, she was awarded the Gold Key for her BFA in Dance with a concentration in Ballet.