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.
Dance faculty Rodney Hamilton was featured in the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, where he performed with Ballet Hispánico dancers as part of a float for Netflix’s new fantasy adventure film Slumberland.
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.
Catherine Cabeen, assistant chair and associate professor of Dance, and alum Diovanna Lábeija Fraizer ’16 choreographed and performed a durational movement meditation for the New-York Historical Society eventReckoning with History: Queer Witchcraft Today.
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Dance alum Lauryn Hayes ’21 got the opportunity to join The Chase Brock Experience at Theater Row this December. The Chase Brock Experience became a company/show at the Theater Row who worked previously with Hayes at MMC.
We are excited to announce that MMC dance alum Bryan Testa ’22 has joined the Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company GALLIM for their Fall ’22 season. Bryan received his BFA in Dance (Modern Concentration).
Dance Alum Misha Culver ’18 was recently featured in a spec commercial for Sony where she modeled the company’s new noise-cancelling headphones. Misha graduated cum laude with a BFA in Modern Dance. She is currently modeling and dancing in various areas.
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.
Following the Fall 2021 Dancers at Work program, Elizabeth Yilmaz, dance advisory board member and producer of Art Bath in NYC, expressed interest in a piece by MMC student Kate Meyers.
Dance alumni Jacob Larsen ’17 and Kate Reyes ’20 performed on the opening night of Martha Graham Dance Company’s season, which was reviewed in The New York Times.
Dance alum Joey Kipp ’10 was born in Brazil and raised in Mountain View, California. He received his BA in Biology and Dance here at MMC. Joey has been featured in The NY Times and their online project Speaking in Dance for his work with Biba Bell, Stacy Grossfield, and Jody Oberfelder. Joey was also listed as one of Time Out NY’s “Hot Dancers of NYC.” He will be performing in the ‘My name’sound (work-in-process)’ performance in April 2022.
Philip Trevino, Technical Director and Professor, is the designer and dramaturge for the performance of ‘My name’sound.’ He’s a Chicano/Latinx and LGBTQ artist, NYSCA individual artist (2021), a 2010 BESSIE recipient for the design of Pam Tanowitz’ Be In The Grey With Me, and 2014 Outstanding Production BESSIE for Camille A. Brown’s Mr. Tol E. Rance. Other credits include work with Jenn Freeman, Kymera Dance, Catherine Cabeen, and Brian Brooks Company.