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Associate Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos has been chosen as a touring artist with the North Carolina Dance Festival (NCDF) in Fall 2016. Each year, the NCDF brings modern and contemporary dance choreography from professional North Carolina artists to audiences across the state. A panel of NCDF adjudicators selects five professional choreographers through a blind […]

School of Architecture alumni Eddie Winn and Samantha McPadden have won third place in a competition sponsored by the Nka Foundation. The competition called for the design of a small artist-in-residence center in a rural arts village in Ghana, Africa. Nka Foundation was established in 2008 as a network of arts villages and arts-based community […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz will present at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) annual conference, which will be held in Chicago, August 11-14. Cruz will present the paper, “The Importance of Having a Stage Movement Practitioner: How a theatre program strengthens and benefits from stage movement courses and the teachers that […]

The Department of Theatre welcomes Dr. Lynne Conner as its new chair. Dr. Conner comes to UNC Charlotte from Colby College, where she served as a professor and former chair of the Theatre and Dance Department. Dr. Conner is a theater and dance historian, cultural policy theorist, and playwright. Her publications include the books Audience […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Barker has been named the 2016 North Carolina Dance Alliance Choreography Fellow. Established in 1982, the North Carolina Dance Alliance awards one choreography fellowship each year to support the creation of new work. Barker began the new piece, Welcome, this summer. Welcome is a 30-minute trio featuring dancers Caitlyn Swett, […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre Robin Witt has received praise for direction of Wastwater at Chicago’s Steep Theatre. The play, by contemporary British playwright Simon Stephens, runs through August 13. In a review on July 19, the Chicago Tribune called Witt’s direction “fearless,” while the Chicago Sun Times praised her “tightly wired direction” and the “superb” […]

The UNC Charlotte chapter of Freedom By Design™ has won the 2016 Freedom By Design Program Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). The AIAS Honor Awards were developed to publicly recognize outstanding achievements by students, educators, and practitioners who have exhibited an exemplary commitment to the education and development of architecture […]

The Department of Music announces the 2016-17 Masterclass Series. The Department will bring seven esteemed musicians to campus to coach music students this academic year. These professionals represent top-notch local musicians as well as guest artists performing with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Opera Carolina. Students in the College of Arts + Architecture benefit greatly […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Music will host a piano sale in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts, August 4 – 6. The Department has had the use of new, first-class pianos on a no-cost basis for the 2015-2016 school year, in an arrangement provided through an association with the Rockley Family Foundation. These instruments, […]

A group of UNC Charlotte theatre and music faculty and alumni will perform Cherry Jackson’s play, In The Master’s House There Are Many Mansions, at the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) in New York City, August 12-18. Performing as the Twilight Repertory Company, the ensemble is led by Associate Professor of Theatre James Vesce, […]