Dancers in Film "Uprooted"

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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Clarice Young

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 ...
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