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Theatre faculty CarlosAlexis Cruz and Bruce Auerbach have work on Children’s Theatre of Charlotte (CTC) stages this winter. Commedia Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a retelling of the beloved fairy tale in the commedia dell’arte tradition directed by Professor Cruz, runs January 14-29 as part of CTC “WonderFest.” Junie B. Jones, with lighting design […]

Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin, Assistant Professor of Dance Studies at UNC Charlotte, co-edited a recently-published issue of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies entitled Talking Black Dance: Inside Out/Outside In.Co-edited with Duke University Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz, the issue focuses on embodied practices that constitute African diaspora dance and their histories and identities within […]

Music alumni Matthew Primm and Meredith Butterworth are launching a new initiative, the Particular Ensemble, to give music performance opportunities for up-and-coming composers. The project aims to promote new music and diversity within the music field, and each concert will present works by contemporary composers of diverse backgrounds, including race and gender. The first Particular […]

Chicago Sun theatre critic Hedy Weiss named London Wall, directed by UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, among Chicago’s top ten productions of 2016. The production also received mention in The Chicago Tribune “best of theatre” list for 2016. London Wall was presented by Griffin Theatre Company in January 2016 and received stellar […]

A lost dance by modern dance master Paul Taylor, reconstructed by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones, was recently reviewed in The New York Times by chief dance critic Alastair Macaulay. The reconstruction was the result of an 18-month process and was funded in part by a Faculty Research Grant, a gift from the Wells […]

Thirteen UNC Charlotte dance students will attend the annual North Carolina Dance Education Organization Conference on January 28, 2017, to be held at UNC Greensboro. Led by Rachel Barker and Delia Neil, students concentrating in dance education and in dance performance, choreography, and theory will attend workshops, master classes, and performances. At the culmination of […]

Associate Professor of Art Maja Godlewska and Assistant Professor of Music Jessica Lindsey have been awarded 2017 Regional Artist Project Grants from the Arts & Science Council (ASC). They are among 32 awardees chosen from nearly 100 applicants. Given annually, Regional Artist Project Grants support artistic creation by funding professional development opportunities or the purchase […]

This winter, students in the Department of Dance have the opportunity to experience and study dance in New York City. Led by professor Rachel Tucker and mentored by Tucker and professor Kim Jones, ten UNC Charlotte Dance students traveled to New York City December 1-4. During the field trip, students took master classes with Ronald […]

The Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, presented a solo exhibition by UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Printmaking Erik Waterkotte November 1-26, 2016. The show, Principa Rerum de Lumine in Tenebris (The Principle of Light in Darkness), is inspired by Waterkotte’s Catholic background and draws upon Masonic symbols […]

Award-winning actor, writer, and director Roger Guenveur Smith will come to the UNC Charlotte campus on January 10 to work with students in the Department of Theatre and perform his one-man show, Rodney King. Smith, who has a successful career in film (American Gangster, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, The Birth of a Nation), […]