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.
Check out Dance Magazine’s new article, “How Marymount Manhattan’s Newest Required Course—Embodied Africanist Aesthetics—Is Swiftly making an Impact on Its Dance Majors.”
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.
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 alumni Nick Nazzaro ’21 and Samantha Butts ’19 are in NYCC Encores The Life with Billy Porter.
Elena Comendador in Joyce Trisler’s ‘Concerto in E’ (1979)
February 23
Keep an eye out for former Assistant Chair of Dance and Faculty Elena Comendador in Joyce Trisler’s, ‘Concerto in E’ from 1979 as a part of The American Dance Guild’s ‘New Dance Group: Voices for Change.’