Profile

Carbon Dance Theatre Founder & Artistic Director Meredith Rainey began dancing at 15 in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale.  In 1985 he joined the Milwaukee Ballet.  In 1987, he joined the newly formed Pennsylvania-Milwaukee Ballet, remaining with the Pennsylvania Ballet when the collaboration ended as a soloist until his retirement in 2006. The recipient of the 1995 & 2002 PA Council on the Arts Fellowship, the 2001 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist as Catalyst Grant, the 2002 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts and, a 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts Finalist.  Meredith has been commissioned to create works for Pennsylvania Ballet, Delaware Ballet, Hubbard Street 2, National Ballet De Cali, Ballet X, Danse 4 Nia and institutions such as Drexel University, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr Colleges. His work has been performed in North and South America and throughout Spain.