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“Christina Carminucci is the most serious, shattering her phrases in a search for greater intensity.”

— Brian Seibert
The New York Times


Recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s 2022

“25 TO WATCH”

“Her burgeoning popularity comes as no surprise to those who have seen how she comes alive when the first notes of a jazz tune begin to play, dancing with the ease and control of a mature practitioner. ”

— Ryan P. Casey, Dance Magazine

Brian Siebert, The New York Times

“Christina Carminucci, in her remarks, thanked her teacher, Derick K. Grant, for transmitting the spirit of his teachers, now-dead elders including Jimmy Slyde and Gregory Hines. (“I don’t know if he’s an elder,” she said about Grant. “He’s an elder,” Grant yelled from his seat.) In her dancing, the most hard-edge and biting of the evening, you could see the influence of Grant and of Dormeshia but also an artist coming into her own.

Leigh Witchel, DanceLog

“Carminucci…Sliding side to side, she covered the most space...”

David Mead, Seeing Dance

“Perhaps because it was so different, most interesting was Christina Carminucci dancing to the music of John Coltrane, however. Tap can feel like a punishing percussion solo, but here, and more than in any of the other dances, the sound of Carminucci’s tap felt like thoughts or words as they sat perfectly alongside the notes coming from the piano. Throw in her clarity, use of counterpoint and complexity, made it especially fascinating and rather moving.”

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