Dalia Carella is a world renowned Master Teacher of both Danse Orientale Belly Dance, Turkish Roman/Dunyavi Roma Dance and Spanish/Arabic Fusion Dance (El Mundo and Flamenco Araby) on the Near/Middle Eastern and Tribal Dance circuits. She is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Dalia Carella Dance Collective (DCDC), her company, based in New York City. Her dances are both traditional and
contemporary with a spiritual and mystical essence behind each and every dance that she creates. Carella has delved deeply in the studies of dances from the Near and Middle East including Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, as well as North Africa including Morocco and Algeria, India and Spain. She is known for her unique style of both Danse Orientale (Belly Dance), Turkish Roman and one of her signature dances she created in 1985, Dunyavi Roma Dance. The core of Dalia’s Dunyavi work is extensive research of the Romany trail, focusing primarily on the Roma dances of Spain, India, Turkey. Dalia performs and teaches a second style of Rom dance, “El Mundo and Flamenco Araby" that has evolved from her continuing studies of Middle Eastern, Andalusia and Latin dance influences. Her dance background also includes studies in Flamenco, Indian, Bollywood/Bhangra, Afro-Haitian, Samba, Salsa, Bomba, Plena from Puerto Rico, Tango as well as jazz and ballet
Ms. Carella’s numerous concerts and teaching tours have led her throughout the United States, Canada, England, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, China and Japan. http://www.daliacarella.com
Dalia Carella Dance Collective:
Experience
Since 2001, the DCDC has performed in a variety of produced theatrical off-broadway productions , showcases, festivals and self-productions at venues throughout New York City, across the country, and even in Japan. A sampling of the DCDC’s performances includes:
New York City’s Lincoln Center’s Out-of-Door Series
The Merce Cunningham Dance Studio
The New York Group Opera Company (dancer/choreographer in both Carmen and La Traviata)
Second Stage Theater
The Duke Theate
Here Arts Center
Nicolas/Louis Choreospace
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (with Elena Lentini and Company)
Yale University (with Elena Lentini and Company)
The Southern Theater - (Minneapolis)
The Ford Theater - (Los Angeles)
The Festival of Woman Improvisers and Festivals sponsored by Met Life
The University of Kentucky (guest choreographer). Composer Cal and the Peekskill Symphony Orchestra (for the PBS "Master Series" Special )
The Theater for the New City (as part of "Desert Sunrise" written by Misha Shulman)
PS122
La Mama ETC International Dance Festival
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) Theater
MMAC Theater
Great Hall Kudan Kaikan - (Tokyo, Japan)
