Dance

Professor of Dance Sybil Huskey will receive the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) at the NDEO 18th Annual National Conference on October 9. The organization’s highest award, the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes exemplary leadership in and innovative contributions to the field of dance education. Huskey has worked in academic, […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Barker will present her new work, “Back of [Y]our Neck,” as part of Emergence, an evening of dance presented by The Triangle Dance Project on Saturday, October 1, in Durham, NC. Barker will perform the duet with Audrey Rachelle, a guest artist from New York City. “Back of [Y]our Neck,” […]

The Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company is on campus through September 30 for the company’s first-ever “reconstruction residency” in the Department of Dance. Capping an 18-month research project led by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones, the residency brings the Taylor 2 dancers from New York City to Charlotte to teach students in master classes […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance will present two back-to-back evenings of diverse performance showcasing faculty choreography on Friday, September 16, and Saturday, September 17. Both performances take place at 7:30 pm in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. The Faculty Dance Concert features guest and faculty dancers in works by professors E.E. […]

AGA Collaborative, which includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, along with Alison Bory and Amanda Hamp, will present the trio’s newest work, win.place.show., at Davidson College on Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September 3. The performances take place at 7:30 pm in the Barber Theatre in Cunningham building. A trio of artist/scholars who collaborate […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to announce that The Wells Fargo Foundation will sponsor a unique project led by the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance. The project, Tracing Modern Dance, is centered on the reconstruction of Tracer, a lost work by modern dance choreographer Paul Taylor, and includes the first-ever reconstruction residency […]

Associate Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos has been chosen as a touring artist with the North Carolina Dance Festival (NCDF) in Fall 2016. Each year, the NCDF brings modern and contemporary dance choreography from professional North Carolina artists to audiences across the state. A panel of NCDF adjudicators selects five professional choreographers through a blind […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Barker has been named the 2016 North Carolina Dance Alliance Choreography Fellow. Established in 1982, the North Carolina Dance Alliance awards one choreography fellowship each year to support the creation of new work. Barker began the new piece, Welcome, this summer. Welcome is a 30-minute trio featuring dancers Caitlyn Swett, […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance has received a 2016 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant, in the amount of $10,000, will support Tracing Modern Dance: A Reconstruction Residency for Paul Taylor’s Lost “Tracer.” The reconstruction residency is the culmination of an 18-month research project by Associate Professor […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Kim Jones performed Martha Graham’s 1935 solo, Imperial Gesture, on April 22 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The program of “Historic and Significant Female Solos, 1928-1954” featured four dancers performing rarely seen solos by Graham and other women choreographers. In 2012, Jones, a former member of the […]