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Carol Somers began her training as a competitive gymnast before pursuing a career in classical ballet. She has danced for a wide variety of both ballet and modern companies and choreographers including Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Ohad Naharin, Ballet Manhattan, Edward Villella, Neta Pulvermacher and in the Boston area for Beth Soll, Caitlin Corbett, and Anna Myer. She began choreographing in 1995 and very shortly after began to acquire considerable recognition for her work. In 1998, she received a finalist award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council's Artist Grants Program and won first place in Dance Portland's Choreography Showcase. In 1999, her work was commissioned for Dance Umbrella's Boston Moves and cited by the Boston Globe as one of the Top Ten Best of Dance for that year. In the spring of 2000, her work was both produced by Movement Research at the Judson Church and presented at St. Mark's Church in New York City. In that same year, she was also commissioned by the Island Moving Company of Rhode Island and by the Harvard/Radcliffe Dance Company. In the fall of 2000, she was awarded a two-week Emerging Artist Residency by the Center for Dance Development, in Portland, ME, a collaboration between the Bates Dance Festival and the New Dance Studio. During the 2001-2002 season, she looks forward to two new diverse projects including a collaboration with the Lumen Contemporary Music Ensemble of Arlington, MA, for her first evening length work, and another commissioned company piece for the Island Moving Company to be performed in April at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA, and in May at the Cunningham Studios in New York.
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