Biography

Carey McKinley Foster is an accomplished movement artist based in Boston, MA. She has over 30 years of exceptional training in a wide variety of dance styles – focused mainly on modern dance and classical ballet. She has performed extensively with a number of Boston-based companies, and has toured nationally and internationally. As a company member with Snappy Dance Theater, Prometheus Dance, Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, Anna Myer and Dancers, and Rebecca Rice Dance, she has been a part of the creative process of over 20 new works, and performed in over 50 different works.

She has studied intensively with Mark Morris, Doug Varone and ODC/San Francisco. She continues to train with renowned teachers Diane Arvanites Noya and Tommy Neblett of Prometheus Dance and Marcus Schulkind. She has studied choreography with Doug Varone, Teri O’Connor, and Jody Weber.

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. Her work mixes strong dance technique with theater and visual art. Carey’s work has been presented by Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center, Dance Complex Shared Choreographers Concerts, Mobius Artspace, Dance Renewal Project, Green Street Studios, Zeitgeist Gallery and at Trinity College in Connecticut.

In 2004, Carey worked with WGBH Boston to create and perform introductions to short films as part of a program called "Dance on Camera", which aired on WGBH Art Close Up. Also in 2004, she performed in a live improvisation with Bobby McFerrin at Boston Symphony Hall.

Carey was Co-Director of Royal Jelly Collective and the Open Floor Project from 2000 to 2003 during which time she hosted over 30 “open mics” for the local dance community, created 10 new works, co-produced 5 evening-length concerts and 2 shared concerts as fundraisers for Green Street Studios.

Carey currently teaches at Cambridge School of Weston, Walnut Hill School, Franklin School for the Performing Arts and Green Street Studios. She teaches modern dance, ballet, jazz, improvisation, choreography and cultural studies through dance.

Carey graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in psychology. She spent two years as a dance major in the Meadows School for the Arts, and also studied fine arts. She has graduate credit from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Extension School in education and business.

Outside of dance, Carey has over 10 years of experience in fundraising, higher education administration, and arts administration.