Dance Department Newsletter Spring 2015

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The UNC Charlotte Department of

Dance presented two back-to-

back evenings of diverse

performance, showcasing faculty

choreography on Friday, January

23, and hosted the North Carolina

Dance Festival (NCDF) on

Saturday, January 24. Both

productions took place at 7:30 pm

in the Anne R. Belk Theater in

Robinson Hall.

The Faculty Dance Concert

featured guest and faculty

dancers in works by professors

Gretchen Alterowitz, E.E. Balcos,

and Kim Jones. Charlotte

Balletprincipals Anna Gerberich

and Pete Leo Walker performed

Alterowitzs contemporary

ballet,Holding Ground,

choreographed in fall 2012 for the

Atlanta Ballets Wabi Sabi series.

Whitney V. Hunter and PaulineSylviane Legras of the Martha

Graham Dance Company and

Daniel Fetecua Soto of the Jos

Limn Companyjoined Kim

Jones in Shedding, performed to

Handels aria Cara sposa,

performed live by countertenor

Reginald Mobley. Soto also dance

da 1957 solo by Jos

Limn,Mazurkas, set to music by

Chopin.

The January 23 program also

included a contact improvisation

piece by E.E. Balcos and guest

artist Alicia Grayson, a work by

Greensboro-based choreographer

and NCDF director Jan Van Dyke,

and two works by the AGA

Collaborative (Alterowitz, Alison

Bory, and Amanda Hamp).

Each year since 1991, the North

Carolina Dance Festivalhas

toured a program across the

state, highlighting the work of

North Carolinas professional

choreographers. The 2014-15

tour ended in Charlotte on

January 24 and featured work by

former Pilobolus dancer Gaspard

Louis, Elon University professor

Sara Ruth Tourek, UNC School of

the Arts professor and former

North Carolina Dance Theatremember Diego Carrasco Schoch,

Durham-based choreographer

Leah Wilks, and Fayetteville-

based choreographer Kristen

Jeppsen Groves. The UNC

Charlotte performance also

included a work by Davidson

College professor Alison Bory and

a repeat performance of Kim

Joness Shedding.

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UNC Charlotte traveledto NYC to perform

Martha Graham's "Steps

in the Street" by UNC

Charlotte Dance majors

and alums. In Januarythey performed this work

successfully at the

Knight Theater in

conjunction with theMartha Graham Dance

Company. They were

excited to perform the

work again in NYC at the

Joyce Theater for theMartha Graham

Company season. The

NYC performance was

Saturday Feb. 14th.


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The Department of Dance will host the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) on April 9

and 10, 2015. CADD is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring,

promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity.

CADD was founded at Duke University; UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Dance Takiyah Nur

Amin is one of the groups original members.

The UNC Charlotte meeting of CADD includes two public events. Both are FREE and ALL ARE

WELCOME.

Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 pm in Robinson Hall, Room 103 Keynote Address by Thomas F.

DeFrantz, Ph.D. "SWITCH: The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political

Leadership, and Black Popular Culture"

When black social dances are practiced by American political leaders, as when First Lady

Michelle Obama demonstrates the Dougie in her Let's Move" anti-obesity campaign, or when

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dances alongside others during her 2012 tour of Africa,

black social dance moves toward a center of considerations of embodied knowledge. This lecture

wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived

in the bodies of elected officials. In addition we will consider the commercial and socially-

inscribed leaders of popular culture, including Beyonce and Madonna, as arbiters of African

American social dance.

Thomas F. DeFrantz, Ph.D. is professor of African & African American Studies and Dance at

Duke University. His research focuses on theories of African diaspora aesthetics, intersections of

dance and technology, and dance historiography.

Friday, April 10, at 6:30pm in Robinson Hall, Studio 118 Public Roundtable with the Founding

Members of CADD. Reception to Follow in Robinson Hall Lobby.

Each CADD founding member will share their current research concerning theories of Black

performance with roundtable attendees followed by a question and answer period. Participantsinclude Takiyah Nur Amin (UNC Charlotte), Raquel Monroe (Columbia College Chicago) Makeda

Thomas (Dance and performance Institute, Trinidad), C. Kemal Nance (University of Illinois),

Jasmine Johnson (Brandeis University), Carl Paris (Drexel University), John Perpener

(Independent Researcher) and Thomas F. DeFrantz, Andrea Woods, and Ava LaVonne Vinesett

(Duke University.)


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*Support for these events provided by the College of Arts + Architecture - Department of

Dance, The Chancellors Diversity Challenge Fund and SLIPPAGE:

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The Department of Dance

presented a spring concert April

16-18 at 7:30 pm

and April 19 at

2:00 pm in the

Anne R. Belk

Theater of

Robinson Hall. A

showcase of

different dance

styles, the concert

featured student

performers in

works

choreographed by

dance faculty

Gretchen

Alterowitz, E.E.

Balcos, Kim

Jones, and Rachel

Tucker.

Alterowitzs contemporary

ballet What tread in solidarity,

what lament is a piece for 11

dancers set to music by Gustav

Mahler and Max Richter. Pulse,

choreographed by Balcos, is

inspired by and set to the nuevo

tango music of Argentine

composer Astor Piazolla.

Domestic violence is the subject

of Tuckers Suite Wonder, with

music by Stevie Wonder. Kim

Jones created Mauri Breath of

Life in consultation with Rodney

Bell, a celebrated dancer of Maori

descent, for a cast of 10 dancers.

The movement is inspired by

(Top) A view from the

wings of "Mauri- A

Breath of Life" by

faculty Kim Jones.

Photo by K.S. UNCC

(Left)E.E. Balcos cast

for the Spring DanceConcert is raring to go!


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Ali says that the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance provides students with a comprehensive study of

performance, choreography, scholarship, and dance

education, resulting in a well-rounded education.

"I would enthusiastically recommend the dance

program at UNC Charlotte because of its innovative

approach to the study of multiple contexts and

perspectives of dance. My education at UNC Charlotte

made me a desirable employee upon graduation. The

faculty were incredibly supportive of my desire to

involve myself in a range of activities and areas of

interest, and because of this diversity of experience

gained during college, I found myself advantaged in

the professional dance field. In the UNC Charlotte dance program, I became skilled in multiple genres of technique

and performance. I gained professional experience as a student teacher and an intern with NCDT (now Carolina

Ballet), and was supported in my endeavor to dance competitively as an athlete with the university dance team. I

learned much about performance, history, and critical thought at UNC Charlotte, but equally importantly, I learned

life and career skills from a caring yet rigorous faculty."

In 2015, Ali was named the inaugural Distinguished Alumnain the Department of Dance.

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On Friday, March 13, the College of Arts + Architecture honored five Distinguished Alumni. This was the first of

what will become an annual celebration of the College's many accomplished graduates. Photos by Daniel Coston.


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