Dance

Professional Dancer based in LA

The Department of Dance will present its Fall Concert November 14-17, featuring four works choreographed by faculty and performed by students. Among the pieces on the program is a reflection, through contemporary dance, on the shooting that occurred at UNC Charlotte on April 30, 2019. The concert will begin and end with tributes to two […]

Students in Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams’s Afro-Brazilian dance class performed with the Los Angeles-based troupe CONTRA-TIEMPO on November 7-9 at the Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in uptown Charlotte. Founded in 2005, CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater is comprised of professional dancers and performers from varied styles, many of whom […]

Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz has been named a 2019-20 CxC Faculty Fellow in the Communication Across the Curriculum office. She is one of two new fellows selected through a competitive nomination and application process. Since 2012, when the Department of Dance became a pilot department for Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC) initiatives, Alterowitz […]

Alumna Renee Welsh Noel, who graduated with a degree in dance in 2016, will play the lead role in the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte production of Peter Pan. The show runs October 4 through November 3 at the McColl Family Theatre in uptown Charlotte. Welsh Noel teaches modern, jazz, and tap dance at the Charlotte […]

Principal Dancer with Neville Dance Theatre/Freelance Dance Artist, New York City

Dr. Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance, has won the 2019 J. Murrey Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award. Each fall, the Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award is presented to a UNC Charlotte faculty member who has engaged in innovative or exceptional work with library collections, programs, and services. The award, along with a $2000 allocation […]

Dance alumna Lillian Willis (Class of 2017) has been awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the New York Public Library for her project: “Seeking Accessibility: American Dance Practices for the Blind and Visually Impaired.” She will spend August in New York City doing research. In recent years, Lillian has served through the UNC Charlotte Office […]

Dancer, Mentor, Graduate Student

Davian ”DJ” Robinson, a dance and exercise/sports science double major, has been selected to present at a national conference at Columbia University in New York City, June 26-30. Entitled “Our Community’s Future: Diversity, Equity and Belonging,” the conference is a meeting of The American Society of Alexander Technique (AmSAT). Davian will present a workshop and […]