Dance

The Charlotte Post announces the Hip-Hop symposium, “To the Beat Y’all,” produced by Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate and hosted by the College of Arts + Architecture. Read the story here.

Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate recently spoke with The Charlotte Observer about the inspiration behind her upcoming Hip-Hop conference, her experience growing up immersed in a family of artists and how her insatiable curiosity led her to see dance as a tool to understand and preserve history. Tate has danced and choreographed for most […]

B.A. in Dance with a Concentration in Performance, Choreography, and Theory and a B.A. in Africana Studies

Assistant Professor of Dance Alyah Baker’s “juste, juste” was performed August 24.

B.A. in Theatre with a concentration in Performance and B.A. in Dance with a concentration in Applied Dance

Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones recently curated a dance festival for the National Maritime Museum in London.

Dance student Naiya Graham was an OUR Summer Research Scholar.

Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate is one of three choreographers to receive a 2025-26 North Carolina Choreographic Fellowship from Trillium Arts. The two-week fellowship will provide Tate and a group of four dancers with financial support, lodging and studio space at the Trillium Arts campus in Mars Hill, North Carolina, in June 2026. “Trillium […]

Dance student Niya Kerr graduates on August 9.

Charlotte Observer – A new installation at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in uptown Charlotte is a collaboration with Charlotte resident and UNC Charlotte grad Davian “DJ” Robinson ’20, a visually impaired dancer and choreographer. It invites visitors to experience art not just with their eyes, but with their full bodies through sound, movement […]