Lauren Carnesi Daniels ’12 (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance) is an artistic director, choreographer, teaching artist and arts manager in the greater Baltimore region. She studied at Mid Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts for her early dance training and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography at Shenandoah Conservatory where she was the recipient of the Elizabeth Weil Bergmann choreography award. Carnesi Daniels recently earned her Master of Science in Arts Administration from Drexel University. 

One of Carnesi Daniels’ most notable accomplishments is her work as artistic director and lead choreographer for Harford Dance Theatre’s annual contemporary, dance-narrative production. She is currently creating her 8th original production, Kinetic Canvas: Andy Warhol, which is set for performance in summer of 2022 after the great success of seven inspirational installments of the KINETIC CANVAS series highlighting Edward Hopper, Claude Monet, Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Frida Kahlo.

Carnesi Daniels is the founder of InvisibleWings Dance Project (IWDP). The performance company’s mission is to spread awareness for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and share the experience of living with Lupus. IWDP has performed with prestigious programs and venues in New York, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The company presented its first full-length performance, The Cruel Mystery: Lupus Through Movement, in 2016.

Carnesi Daniels’ additional choreographic works have received many accolades and been selected for performance at several venues including the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (New York City), City Center Studios (New York City), Jack Guidone Theater (Washington, D.C.), Clara Barton Museum (Washington, D.C.), Athenaeum Theatre (Chicago, Illinois), Lang Performing Arts Center (Pennsylvania), Capital Fringe Festival and Youth American Grand Prix semi-finals and finals stages. Her work has been performed abroad at the Macedonia National Opera and Ballet Theater and other notable performance venues in Canada, England, Greece, Macedonia and the Catalonia region of Spain.

As a choreographer in the competitive dance scene, Carnesi Daniels’ work has earned numerous choreography awards; overall high scores; special awards for creativity, storytelling, partnering, performance quality, and original concepts; and regional and national titles. She was recently named Outstanding Choreographer at the Pittsburgh Youth American Grand Prix (YAGP) semi-final and had her piece Approach to Cubism honored with being selected for the prestigious Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala at the YAGP 2021 finals.