Dance
Dance Professor Named 2016 NC Dance Alliance Fellow
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, […]
Department of Dance Receives NEA Art Works Grant
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 […]
Dance Professor Performs Historic Solo at 92nd Street Y
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 […]
Dance Department to Participate in National Water Dance
Students from the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance, under the direction of Professor of Dance Sybil Huskey, will participate in National Water Dance. Held this year on Saturday, April 16, National Water Dance is an annual event that builds a nation-wide “movement choir” of dancers who join together to draw attention to global water issues. […]
Spring Dance Concert Features Work by Tony Winning Choreographer George Faison
The Department of Dance will present a Spring Concert April 14-17 in Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Among the works on the program is Suite Otis, choreographed by the Tony Award-winning choreographer George Faison. Faison is a former dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the choreographer of more than two dozen […]
Dance Professor Featured in Multiple Programs
Assistant Professor of Dance Takiyah Nur Amin has presented multiple lectures and programs about African American dance to a variety of different audiences this semester. On February 13 Dr. Amin presented “BlackDanceMatters” at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American arts + Culture. The lecture explored Black dance and performance traditions from a historical and […]
Mojdeh Harlan
Manager of Talent Acquisition, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Professor’s Article Published in Dance Research Journal
An article by Assistant Professor of Dance Kim Jones is the cover article of the December 2015 issue of Dance Research Journal, published three times a year by the Congress on Research in Dance. The article, “American Modernism: Reimagining Martha Graham’s Lost Imperial Gesture (1935),” chronicles the research process that Jones undertook in 2012 to […]
Patrice Commodore
Director, Order My Steps Christian Dance Studio
Hardin M. Minor
Performance Artist, Co-Founder/Artistic Director of OMIMEO Mime Theatre Education:Bachelor of Creative Arts, UNC Charlotte (1979) Hometown:Charlotte, NC Charlotte native and multidimensional performance artist Hardin Minor is a key player in the Charlotte arts scene, embodying countless characters and enlivening spaces throughout the community. In 1978, he and Eddie Williams founded OMIMEO Mime Theatre, which continues to entertain […]