Dance

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance announces Fall 2018 guest artist, Claudia Lavista. Lavista will teach master classes, hold conversations with students, and create a new version of her interdisciplinary work PROW (a journey). Students will audition to work with Lavista in the first week of fall semester. The work will be performed as part […]

Julia Foster, who graduated from UNC Charlotte in May with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Arts in English, has joined PDX Contemporary Ballet in Portland, Oregon, as a company member. While at UNC Charlotte, Julia participated in the Professional Training Certificate in Dance, a two-year, 16-hour certificate program with Charlotte […]

Dance education major Makayla Church has been named the UNC Charlotte Student Teacher of the Year for the Spring 2018 semester. She becomes the UNC Charlotte nominee for North Carolina Outstanding Student Teacher of the Year, which will be announced at the annual North Carolina Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators meeting this fall in […]

Associate Professor of Dance Karen Hubbard was the featured guest artist at the OhioDance Festival and Conference, held April 27-29 at The Ohio State University (OSU). The theme of the conference was Pathways from Past to Present. Hubbard received her Master of Arts in Dance at OSU. During the conference, Hubbard taught two Vintage Jazz […]

Video Collaboratory LLC, a company founded by dance professor Sybil Huskey and computing faculty Celine Latulipe and David Wilson, with doctoral student Vikas Singh, has received the Blue Diamond “Cool Innovation” Award from the Charlotte Area Technology Collaborative. The Blue Diamond Awards are given annually to recognize technology innovation and talent in the Charlotte region. […]

Students from the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance will perform at McLeod Plantation Historic Site in Charleston, S.C., on April 28. Presented by James Island Arts and supported by the South Carolina Humanities Council, the students will participate in a program on ring shouts and praise houses, two examples of cultural traditions rooted in the […]

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On Saturday, April 14, UNC Charlotte dance students will perform at New York City’s 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, a venue of tremendous importance for dance both historically and currently (Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and Merce Cunningham are among the many storied dancers who have performed there). The students will perform works by Associate […]

Led by Associate Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos and Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams, nine UNC Charlotte dance students participated in the March 4-7 Mid-Atlantic South American College Dance Association (ACDA) festival, held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Balcos (Contact Improvisation), Williams (Afro-Brazilian Dance), and senior dance major Anna Edwards (Ring Shout […]

The Department of Dance presents student performers in five diverse works by faculty and guest choreographers in the Spring Dance Concert, March 22-25, in the Anne. R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Click here for ticket information. New York-based choreographer Netta Yerulshalmy was in residence in the dance department in January, during which she created […]