Commencement Profile: Cortney Vartanian BFA Dance: Choreography/ Performance w/K-12 Licensure
Dance is an art form that, in many cases, requires performers to move as an ensemble. Cortney Vartanian knows the importance of esprit de corps, but she’s also learned the value in making the choreography your own. “Our professors preached individuality. They encouraged us to find our own voice here. We are all going through […]
Message from Dean bruce d. mcclung
April 20, 2021 Dear CVPA Colleagues, Students and Families, and Alumni: I am heartened by the guilty verdict in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. Justice has been served in this case, and the police officer who swore an oath to protect has been held accountable for the senseless death of George Floyd while in […]
Dance Concert Explores the Human Condition
The UNCG School of Dance will showcase original choreographic work by eight senior Choreography and Performance students in the Spring 2021 BFA Dance Thesis Concert “the human condition,” which premiers via YouTube on April 24, 2021 at 8 p.m. Here are the choreographers and artistic statements for their works: Chania Wilson (Raleigh, NC): The Second […]
Alexandra Joye Warren ’06 MFA Dance, Founder of JOYEMOVEMENT
For Alexandra Joye Warren, starting her own dance company was not so much an act of entrepreneurship as it was a calling. It just took her some time to listen to it. Warren was in her senior year, completing a BA degree in Drama with a concentration in Dance/Pre-Medicine from Spelman College, when she first […]
Inaugural Winner of Stinson Award Announced
The University of North Carolina Greensboro School of Dance is delighted to announce the inaugural recipient of the UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education to Doug Risner and Karen Schupp for the edited volume Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education: Case Studies on Humanizing Dance Pedagogy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020). Comprised of research-based, […]
Commencement Profile: Jacob Brown BA in Dance Studies
As a choreographer and a performer, Jacob Brown’s path has already taken some twists and turns, and he says he is thankful for the School of Dance’s faculty members who have been with him every step of the way: “My professors have been my mentors, and now they will be lifelong friends and colleagues. People […]
Stinson Book Award Call for Nominations
The UNC Greensboro School of Dance is thrilled to announce the creation of The UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education. About the Award Funded by an anonymous donor to UNCG in recognition of Dr. Susan W. Stinson, a leading pioneer in the field of dance education, the annual award recognizes book-length […]
Full Stream Ahead: Fall Dances Performance Pivot
“How do we reconcile that this most physical of art forms, which takes place in space and the space between bodies, now takes place physically distanced with nobody touching each other?” That is a question that School of Dance Director Janet Lilly has been pondering for months as she and faculty, staff, and students plan […]
New Award for Dance Education
The UNC Greensboro School of Dance is thrilled to announce the creation of The UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education. UNCG Professor Emerita of Dance, Dr. Sue Stinson is internationally renowned for her dance education research and publications, as well as her innumerable contributions to dance education for children and community-based […]
Graduate Dance Programs Now Accepting Applications
The UNCG School of Dance invites applications for our resident MFA and MA programs to begin in Fall 2021. The MFA in Choreography is a three-year program designed to help students develop and clarify their choreographic voices. The MA in Theories & Practices can be completed with 36 hours and focuses on the investigation of […]