A Lifelong Passion and Dedication to Dance.

Dalia Carella is a renowned world fusion artist and the Founder and Artistic Director of Dalia Carella Dance Collective (DCDC). She has taught all over the world to thousands of students in different styles of dances from Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, North Africa, Spain, India, Puerto Rico and more.

Her rich background has led her to create new works representing both traditional and contemporary choreographies ranging from global sacred rituals to ethnic contemporary theater pieces to post-modern works for herself and DCDC. She is also known for her explorations into her dark and sultry cabaret stylings, evocative of the European underground, circa the 1920s and 30s as seen in shows like Cabaret de la Nuit and Menagerie d’Arte, co produced with Dwebb Designs.

Background

As a master teacher and choreographer, Dalia brings with her expertise in a wide variety of world dance that she has studied, including: All aspects of Egyptian, Arabic, North African, Flamenco, Indian (Bollywood and Bhangra) Afro-Haitian, Samba, Salsa, Bomba and Plena, Tango as well as Jazz and Ballet. In 1985, she created her "Dunyavi Roma Dance", a signature dance form, for which she is known throughout the world besides her Vintage style of Danse Orientale, and “Flamenco Araby / El Mundo”, that blends Arabic, Flamenco and Latin dance influences.

Critical Acclaim

“Few dancers exude as much joy as Carella, a ravishing woman of singular confidence and dramatic expression whose role models must be Ruth St. Denis, Katherine Dunham, and Ava Gardner.”
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, the Village Voice

 “Dalia Carella is an accomplished artist. Watching her brought back memories of the power of the eastern dance of Ruth St. Denis early in the century and the inspiration that gave to another American girl, Martha Graham. She brought back the grace and mysteries of the East. A final solo based on Turkish, Spanish and Indian dances had us all cheering!” 
Francis Mason, (WQXR Radio, New York)

 “Dalia Carella has star power. Performing a highly original fusion of Middle Eastern, modern, and other world dance forms, she bewitches her spectators, while seeming to excite herself, with a sizzling allure that is almost frightening.”
Lisa Jo Sagolla from Backstage

 

Experience

Dalia’s numerous performance and teaching tours have led her throughout the United States, Canada, England, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Italy, China, Japan and Turkey. A sampling of major venues she has performed at include:

  • Lincoln Center’s Out-of-Door Series - One Woman Show

  • The Merce Cunningham Dance Studio

  • The New York Group Opera Company (dancer/choreographer in both Carmen and La Traviata)

  • Adelphi University - Choreographer & Performer, Production of a Tribute to Ruth St. Denis

  • Second Stage Theater

  • The Duke Theater - Off Broadway Production of Ruth St. Denis Biography Series, Choreographer, Performer, DCDC

  • Teatro Latea

  • 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 - (Two DCDC Dance Productions)

  • MMAC Theater

  • Great Hall Kudan Kaikan - (Tokyo, Japan)