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Carey McKinley Foster is an accomplished movement artist based in Boston, MA. She has over 30 years of training in a wide variety of dance styles – focused mainly on modern dance and classical ballet. She toured nationally and internationally with Snappy Dance Theater, and performed regionally with Prometheus Dance, Nicola Hawkins, Rebecca Rice, Anna Myer and Kelley Donovan. In 2009, she was a guest artist at UMass Boston, and a guest teacher for the Harvard Radcliffe Dance Co. In 2008, she was a guest performer with Sara Rudner and with David Parker & The Bang Group. She currently performs with Sun Ho Kim, and in her own work with collaborator, Bess Whitesel. She is on the dance faculties at Cambridge School of Weston and Walnut Hill School. She is currently working towards her M.F.A. in Dance at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Performance
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David Parker & The Bang Group 2008 Nut/Cracked Presented by The Theater Offensive Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA |
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 | Sara Rudner and Friends 2008 Work intensively with Sara Rudner during summer 08 and performed in "Dancing-On-View" at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston and Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy |
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Snappy Dance Theater 2005-2007 Voted "Best Dance Performers" in 2007 by Boston Phoenix Readers' Pick Awards. Performed and toured internationally in France and Bermuda, and nationally in 9 States. Performed 14 repertory pieces and collaboratively created 2 new works with the company. Featured in Dance Magazine in Dec 07. |
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Prometheus Dance
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Nicola Hawkins Dance Company 2001-2005 Performed at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery (NY), Rhode Island College, and at numerous Boston venues: Peabody Essex Museum, Zero Arrow Theater, Tsai Performance Center, Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center. Performed live improvisation with Bobby McFerrin at Boston Symphony Hall in 2004. Performed in “Arcus”, a 2002 film made by Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva (screened at ADF and Lincoln Center, NY). Performed in 13 of Nicola’s pieces, and took part in the creation of 8 new works. |
Anna Myer & Dancers 2002 Performed with Anna Myer at Jacob’s Pillow and at Green Street Studios in Cambridge. Performed in 5 repertory works and participated in the creation of one new work. | |
WGBH Art Close Up
2004 Worked as choreographer and solo dancer with WGBH-Boston to create segments used as interludes between contemporary dance films for a program called "Dance on Camera". The show aired on WGBH’s Art Close Up program during 2004. |
"Strata" choreographed and performed by: Bess Whitesel & Carey Foster set and costume designer: Penney Pinette photos: Eli Akerstien 2008 |
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"Material Concerns" choreography: Carey Foster dancers: Callie Chapman, Kristen Duffy, Carey Foster set design: Jude Heichelbech photos: Lisa Dragani 2002 |   |
Carey has worked individually and collaboratively with other dancers, visual artists, and musicians, creating over a dozen works that have been presented in Boston area venues since 2000. Carey’s work has been presented by Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center, Dance Complex Shared Choreographers Concerts, Mobius Artspace, Performance Works Project, Dance Renewal Project, Green Street Studios, Zeitgeist Gallery and at Trinity College in Connecticut. Carey was Co-Director of Royal Jelly Collective and the Open Floor Project from 2000 to 2003 during which time she choreographed 9 new pieces, hosted over 30 “open mics” for dance, co-produced 5 evening-length concerts and 2 shared concerts as fundraisers for Green Street Studios. Choreography for Students at:
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Carey Foster is on the dance faculties at:
Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, 2007-present
Acting Head of Dance Department for part of the 2008/09 school year. Courses includes: Advanced, Intermediate & Beginning
Dance Technique (Modern & Ballet), Cultural Studies in Dance, Creative Process in Performance & Dance, Movement Improvisation,
Composition Workshop, Choreography Projects, Break Dance to Ballet, Dance in the Harlem Renaissance.
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA, 2006-present
Beginning Modern Dance in the high school Ballet Dept; Modern Dance in the after-school Academy
Harvard Radcliffe Dance Co., Cambridge, MA, 2009
Guest Teacher
Franklin School for the Performing
Arts, Franklin, MA, 2007-2008
Advanced, Intermediate and Beginning Modern Dance Technique, Pre-teen
Jazz
Gardner Elementary School,
Allston, MA, 2007-2008
Creative movement for K-3rd graders (through Mass Movement and Young Audiences)
Harvard Dance Department, Cambridge, MA,
2006
Teaching Assistant with Martha Mason for a partnering workshop for college-aged students
Swift Middle School, Litchfield,
CT, 2006
8-week Residency with Snappy: Collaboratively developed workshop curriculum that included creativity, movement,
theater games and partnering skills. Taught 5 classes a day for a week for middle school students.
Project Poetry Live, Waterbury, CT, 2006
Following
the workshops described above, co-led an ensemble of 40 middle school students for 7 weeks and choreographed 7 pieces for
the ensemble. Co-directed the final performances with live music accompaniment
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 2004
Taught
a weekly Stretch and Movement Class for HSPH staff
Peanut
Butter & Jelly Dance Company, various elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts, 2002-2004
Performed
and taught workshops in dozens of local elementary schools
Academy of Dance Expressions, Westboro, MA, 2002-2003
Taught 5 classes a week
in ballet, jazz and creative movement for K-8th graders
Burrell
School, Foxboro, MA, 2000
Taught workshops increative movement for middle school students
Mediplex of East Boston, East Boston, MA,
1995
As Recreational Therapist, taught weekly classes in expressive movement and art therapy for geriatric patients
and adult patients with head injuries and psychological disorders
Charleston Civic Ballet, Charleston, SC, 1988-1989
Assistant Ballet Teacher
Ashley Hall School, Charleston,
SC, 1988-1989
Gymnastics Teacher for Kindergarten students
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2009-2011
Candidate for Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance
Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 1989-1993
Bachelor of Arts degree, Psychology Major
Two years
as dance major – 28 credit hours of dance major coursework
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA, 1996-2002
Coursework in Adolescent Development, Community Development,
Business Communication,Written Communication.
Training
Classical Ballet
– over 30 years of training
Modern Dance – 20 years of training – (Graham, Cunningham, Limon, Release,
Horton, Laban Analysis, Contact
Improvisation, various fusions)
American Styles - Classical Jazz Dance, Jazz
Funk, Hip Hop, Break dancing – various styles
African-Influenced Styles – Afro-Brazilian Maracatu (studied
and performed with Batuke do Norte), Capoeira Angola with Mestre Deraldo Ferreria, Afro-Haitian folkloric with Fantezi Kreyol,
West African, Afro-Cuban
Eastern Styles - Bharatnatyam (South Indian Classical Dance), Korean traditional dance, Japanese
Butoh
Acrobatics – performed acrobatic partnering skills with Snappy Dance Theater
Gymnastics –
trained as a youth and with Snappy
Conditioning - Irene Dowd Sequences with Peggy Baker, Zena Rommett Floor Barre with
Marcus Schulkind, Pilates,Gyrokinesis, Yoga, Physical Therapy
Social Dancing – Salsa, Flamenco, Tango, Swing,
Contra and Square dancing, Eastern European folk dances
Teachers include: Mark Morris, Sara Rudner, Doug Varone, Diane Arvanites-Noya, Tommy Neblett, Marcus Schulkind, Cheri Opperman, Peggy Baker, ODC/San Francisco, Debra Bluth, Max Stone and Bob Beard (SMU), Jeff Satinoff and Martha Purl (Charleston, SC), Don and Patricia Cantwell (Charleston, SC), Chip & Phip Fuller (Pasadena, CA)
Choreographic Theory and Practices with Doug Varone, Teri O’Connor, Jody Weber, and taking part in the creation of 20 new works with various choreographers. Choreographic mentors have included: Richard Colton, Iris Fanger.
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