Carolyn Webb

Carolyn serves as Adjunct Professor of Dance at The City University of New York at Queens College.  Concurrently, she teaches at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education and at The State University of New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialty are: Afro Caribbean Dance; African Dance; Jazz Dance; and Modern Dance. 

Carolyn is a dancer/choreographer/musician who has performed internationally with some of the foremost dance companies and musicians of the African Diaspora, including Papa Ladji Camara West African Dance and Drum Ensemble; the Jean Leon Destine Afro-Haitian Dance Company; La Troupe Makandal; Roots of Brazil; Retumba Afro-Caribbean Women’s Dance and Percussion Ensemble; Eddie Torres, and Tito Puente. She earned an MFA in Dance from The University of Michigan. 

Carolyn directed and published the African Dance Interview Project at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL). The Project identifies and documents the stories of legendary dancers from West Africa and the Diaspora, who are influential performers and teaching artists in New York City. The interviews of the African Dance Project and a Public Program co-sponsored by Dance/NYC are accessible on the world-wide-web through the NYPL Digital Collections. The Project was funded by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.