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Published in her second monograph, "Diary of a Dancer" (2005), documents Carucci’s experience as a professional Middle-Eastern belly dancer entertaining at events like weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs in the five boroughs of New York.It proved difficult for her to dance and take photographs herself, so she often had the help of husband Eran Bendheim.Images in this work reflect Carucci applying makeup and preparing for jobs in dismal looking bathrooms and on subway rides, snapshots of her dancing and of the people she was entertaining.