Dance

Dance Students Perform with Los Angeles Troupe at Blumenthal PAC

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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 […]

Dance Professor Named CxC Faculty Fellow

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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 […]

Dance Alum Has Lead in “Peter Pan”

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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 […]

Laura Dearman Mosteller

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

Dance Professor Wins Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award

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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 Receives Research Fellowship

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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 […]

Lillian Willis

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Dancer, Mentor, Graduate Student

Dance Student to Present at National Conference in NYC

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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 […]

Dance Major Wins Marian Beane Writing Contest

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Dance student Cecilia Whalen has won first place in the Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Contest, an internationally themed writing contest sponsored by the Office of International programs, the English Language Training Institute, and the UNC Charlotte International Club. The contest was open to current UNC Charlotte undergraduates and upper-level students of the English Training […]

Dance Alums Headed to Grad School

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The Department of Dance is proud to announce that three recent dance alumni will attend excellent graduate programs in Fall 2019. Lillian Willis has been offered a position with Transitions Dance Company at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, which includes acceptance into the Master of Arts in Dance Performance. Trinity Laban […]