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 along the east coast, including New York City Opera. She danced for The Metropolitan Opera Ballet and as a principal guest artist for Ohio Dance Theatre and Granite State Ballet; as a soloist for Charleston Ballet, Lexington Ballet and Maryland Ballet.

She is a former faculty member of Barnard College, The New School University, The Ballet Hispanico school, and Broadway Dance Center. Mary has directed nine ballet classroom music CDs and three young dancer DVDs as well as being featured in several of the late master teacher David Howard’s instructional DVDs.

She is certified in Pilates mat and Progressing Ballet Technique/PBT in addition to teaching ballet. Mary is a pointe shoe expert and shares her knowledge on her Youtube channel – Dancewithmary NYC “for any and all things pointe shoes.”