Dance

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

AGA Collaborative, the trio of performer-choreographers that includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, has jointly published an article in Choreographic Practices 9 (2). The article, “And how to be in three places at once: A collaborative experiment,” reflects on the trio’s creative practices and how their values are manifested through their collaborative working process. […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Kaustavi Sarkar recently organized a dance festival in honor of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra (1926-2004), the man who revived and popularized the ancient Indian classical dance, Odissi. The festival, “Soul Vision,” was held in Calcutta, India, on January 2. Prior to coming to the United States, Sarkar was a student and then […]

The Department of Dance welcomes visiting artist Janet Schroeder to UNC Charlotte this week to teach master classes and audition students for a work for the Spring Dance Concert. Schroeder will return to campus in January as a visiting professor and will teach three courses in addition to the Spring Dance Concert practicum. Schroeder is […]

UNC Charlotte Dance Majors Katie Harmon and Victoria Stewart received Betty Holding Dancers Fund scholarships from the Wake Forest Dance Festival. These $500 scholarships are available on a competitive basis to student performers selected for the dance festival, which took place in September. The Wake Forest Dance Festival was founded in 2017 by Masha Maddux, […]

Students in the Department of Dance will perform the 2018 Fall Dance Concert November 15-18, in the Belk Theater in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. The four works on the program were choreographed by UNC Charlotte dance faculty and guest artists, including choreographer Claudia Lavista of Delfos Danza Contemporánea. The program will open with […]

The North Carolina Association for Colleges and Teacher Educators (NCACTE) has named recent UNC Charlotte dance alumna Makayla Church the 2018 Student Teacher of the Year. Church received the award on October 4 at the 36th Annual North Carolina Teacher Education Forum, Celebrating Our Professional Identity: Shared Knowledge and Advocacy held in Raleigh.The award includes […]