Greensboro Dance Film Festival Presents “Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance”
The UNC Greensboro School of Dance, in partnership with Sugarfoote Productions, will present the 7th Annual Greensboro Dance Film Festival October 29th-30th. The festival kicks off with a special screening of “Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance” at the UNCG Auditorium. “Uprooted” is a ground-breaking documentary that traces the roots of jazz dance from Africa to […]
Dr. Ana Paula Höfling Receives National Award
Congratulations to Associate Professor Ana Paula Höfling who was awarded the Dance Studies Association’s Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research for her book Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira (Wesleyan University Press, 2019). The award is funded by the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas Austin, and […]
Join the School of Dance Graduate Programs!
The UNC Greensboro School of Dance invites applications for our resident MFA and MA programs to begin in Fall 2022. The MFA in Choreography is a three-year, 60-hour program designed to develop and clarify students’ choreographic voices and to deepen understanding of dance-making as a personal, aesthetic, cultural, and social process. The MA in Theories & Practices is […]
Billy Hawkains (’16 MFA Dance): Graduate Researcher Profile
“I see everything as dance – walking, swaying,” says Billy Hawkains (’16 MFA Dance) . He’s particularly fascinated by what he sees, and saw growing up, in the Black church. Read more about Hawkains’ work in the UNCG Research magazine:
Inaugural Recipient of Risner Professor of Dance Award Announced
The UNCG School of Dance is excited to announce Assistant Professor of Dance Clarice Young as the inaugural recipient of the Doug Risner Professor of Dance Award. Dr. Risner has a long relationship with UNCG Dance and he holds a BFA and MFA in Dance and Ph.D. in Educational Foundations from UNC Greensboro. His intent […]
Call for Submissions to 2nd Annual Stinson Book Award
The UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award in Dance Education Announcement and Call for Submissions The UNC Greensboro School of Dance is thrilled to announce the opening of the 2nd round of nominations for the UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education. About the Award Funded by an anonymous donor to […]
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 […]