Dance

Audrey Baran, visiting assistant professor of dance and an alumna of UNC Charlotte (B.A. Dance, 2003), has published an article in the Journal of Dance Education. The article, “Sneaking Meditation,” offers practical and experiential methods of incorporating meditative practices into a contemporary or modern dance course while maintaining the energetic rigor that university dance students […]

NYC-Based Dance Artist

Jim Henson Academy of Visual and Performing Arts Coordinator at Northwestern High School, Hyattsville, MD

Professional Dancer with Adolfo Indacochea & Latin Soul Dancers, Dance Instructor at Empire Mambo Dance Studio, New York City

UNC Charlotte Dance faculty and students participated in the 2020 North Carolina Dance Education Organization (NCDEO) conference, Technology, Assessment, & Artistry in Dance, held Saturday, February 22, at Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte. The event also attracted alumni of the dance program, many of them now dance educators in North Carolina public schools. […]

More than 30 dance students were treated to a rigorous but thrilling masterclass by Hope Boykin on Wednesday, February 26. Boykin, a native of Durham, North Carolina, is a longtime member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The revered modern dance company, founded by Alvin Ailey more than 60 years ago, performed two programs in […]

Freelance Dance Artist, LA

The Department of Dance has been awarded a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) “Art Works” grant. The $10,000 grant will support the project “Indian Dance and American Communities: Expanding Forms and Audiences.” Dr. Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance, is the principal investigator. With the grant, the dance department will commission two dance […]

Students from the Department of Dance will perform Frida’s Faces at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in Raleigh on Sunday, January 12. The performances will take place in conjunction with the exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, on view at the museum through January […]

For the second year, the Department of Dance offered a Dance and Community class taught by Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams. Last year, students had the opportunity to teach weekly classes at Camino Community Center and this semester, students taught at Aldersgate, a nonprofit retirement community in Charlotte, NC. Williams created this Dance and […]