mary carpenter

Mary trained at CCM, Butler University, David Howard Dance Center on scholarship, and the National Shakespeare Conservatory. She performed in numerous musicals and plays and danced for The Metropolitan Opera Ballet at Lincoln Center. She also performed with Ohio Dance Theatre and Granite State Ballet as a principal guest artist, as well as Charleston Ballet, Lexington Ballet and Maryland Ballet as a soloist. She is a former faculty member of Barnard College, The New School University, Ballet Hispanico school, and Broadway Dance Center. She currently teaches ballet and Pilates for Steps on Broadway and American Liberty Ballet in New York. Mary has created nine ballet classroom music CDs and appeared in three instructional DVDs and was a featured dancer in several of the late master teacher David Howard’s instructional DVDs. Mary is a master pointe shoe fitter and shares her expertise on Youtube at her channel - Dancewithmary NYC “for any and all things pointe shoes.”