Jamie Carabetta

Background

About Jamie Carabetta

Jamie Carabetta began making dances for the neighborhood children at the age of 5 to her dad’s Shirley Bassey records, gradually morphed into a light theatre ingénue before earning her MFA in dance at University of California, Irvine in As a dancer she performed nationally and internationally, touring the US and Japan. Jamie has had the honor of receiving numerous grants, from the National Museum of Dance, CUNY Dance Initiative, California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Center for Cultural Innovation, the Annenberg Foundation and University of California, Irvine. Her choreography has been commissioned by over 12 colleges and universities and performed in Japan, Ohio, New York, Washington and California. In 2012, Jamie founded Pony Box Dance Theatre, a contemporary, all male dance company integrating visual art, theater and original scores committed sharing the joy and healing power of dance to everyone. PBDT placed as a finalist in 2016 McCallum Theater’s prestigious Choreography Festival and is now in residence at York College in New York as part of the CUNY dance initiative.