Dance
Dance Department Hosts Residencies Jan 30-Feb 4
The Department of Dance will host two special residencies during the week of January 30, culminating in performances on February 3 and 4. AGA Collaborative, a three-member dance group that includes UNC Charlotte Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, and Amanda Hamp, will collaborate with students to create a new dance work, Anthem […]
Dance Professor Co-edits Dance Studies Journal
Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin, Assistant Professor of Dance Studies at UNC Charlotte, co-edited a recently-published issue of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies entitled Talking Black Dance: Inside Out/Outside In.Co-edited with Duke University Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz, the issue focuses on embodied practices that constitute African diaspora dance and their histories and identities within […]
Dance Professor’s Work Reviewed by The New York Times
A lost dance by modern dance master Paul Taylor, reconstructed by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones, was recently reviewed in The New York Times by chief dance critic Alastair Macaulay. The reconstruction was the result of an 18-month process and was funded in part by a Faculty Research Grant, a gift from the Wells […]
Dance Students to Present at Education Conference
Thirteen UNC Charlotte dance students will attend the annual North Carolina Dance Education Organization Conference on January 28, 2017, to be held at UNC Greensboro. Led by Rachel Barker and Delia Neil, students concentrating in dance education and in dance performance, choreography, and theory will attend workshops, master classes, and performances. At the culmination of […]
Dance Students Study in New York
This winter, students in the Department of Dance have the opportunity to experience and study dance in New York City. Led by professor Rachel Tucker and mentored by Tucker and professor Kim Jones, ten UNC Charlotte Dance students traveled to New York City December 1-4. During the field trip, students took master classes with Ronald […]
Dedrick Perkins
Instructor, choreographer, dancer, owner/founder of Dedrick’s Dance District, Charlotte
Melissa Word
Teaching Artist for The Woodruff Arts Center/Resident Artist at the Work Room, Atlanta, Georgia
Caitlyn Swett
Dancer, Musician, and Managing and Development Director at the Culture Mill
Audrey Baran
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at UNC Charlotte and founder Baran Dance Company
Dance Department Hosts Local School Students for Education Concerts
The Department of Dance presented its Fall Dance Concert to students from local middle and high schools in a special education performance on Friday, November 4, at 11:00 am in Belk Theater, Robinson Hall. More than 300 students from seven schools attended; the schools represented are Jay M. Robinson Middle, Northridge Middle, Ridge Road Middle, […]