Carly Shraga

Administrative Intern

Carly Shraga (she/her) is a New York–based contemporary dance artist and choreographer. She is pursuing her BFA in Dance, Choreography concentration at Marymount Manhattan College, training in modern, contemporary, jazz, ballet, and improvisation under Nancy Lushington, Caroline Fermin, Chelsea Ainsworth, Dr. Elisabeth Motley, and Adam Barruch. Carly has performed works by Zvi Gotheiner, Netta Yerushalmy, Aaron Loux, Thryn Saxon, and Nancy Lushington, appearing as a featured soloist in venues including the Theresa Lang Theater, Great Hall Theater, and River Bluff Auditorium. Her training includes intensives with Humanhood (Italy), FLOCK (Chicago, Orsolina), and GagaLab NYC. As a choreographer, Carly creates work rooted in personal experience, neurodivergence, and surrealist influence, exploring how movement reveals tension between chaos and order, identity and transformation. Her recent works — From Scratch / Laid Bare (Arts on Site), This Doesn’t Feel Right (So We Stayed There) (Great Hall Theater), and Echoes Between Interwoven Realms (Bridge for Dance) — merge humor, vulnerability, and abstraction to reimagine human experience through the body. Beyond performance and choreography, Carly is a guest faculty member and choreographer at studios across the East Coast and a Professional Assistant with Revive and Adrenaline Dance Conventions. Her practice centers movement as a space for imperfection, intuition, and transformation, examining how identity, femininity, and sexuality intersect with social and cultural conditioning.