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Technique Placement Class
Our next placement class, for placement in contemporary and ballet technique classes, will be on Monday, August 25 at 5pm in studio 322. Attending this class will allow for possible higher placement in both ballet and contemporary classes. Please come prepared to participate in both areas of dance.
Department of Dance
UNCG Dance Alumni - 2006
UNDERGRADUATE
Jessica Arnold, BS
Shannon Brooks, BA
Lindsey Brown, BS
Danielle DeBisschop, BS
Carlita Ector, BA
Megan Jolliffe, BA
Stephanie Leathers, BA
Kristen Osborne Lucas, BA
updated 5/07
Kristen will be teaching dance in Charleston at the School of the Arts. She will be one of three dance teachers at the school and will be working with middle and high school dance majors. She will also be teaching a community dance class, beginning in August.
Teresa Nicole Plainte, BS
Allison Purcell, BS
Christina Roberts, BA
Jennifer Sherman, BFA
Amber Starr, BS
updated 11/06
I am teaching dance at Graham High School in Alamance county, coaching dance team at Graham and Eastern Guilford High, and I'm working a part time job as a beauticontrol consultant. I am still interested in performing and choreographing outside of work!
Amber can be reached at (336) 375-1468.
Jessica Stephens, BA
updated 8/07
Jessica is starting her second year teaching dance at Clarkton School of Discovery and Bladenboro Middle School in Bladen County, NC. She commutes daily between the two schools. Jessica is the only public school dance teacher in the county and the first dancer teacher Bladenboro Middle School has ever had. She is also the ballet, lyrical and technique instructor at Amy's Academy of Dance Arts .
Jessica's Contact Information:
PO BOX 382
Bladenboro, NC 28320
jmstephens@bladen.k12.nc.us
(910)840-2620
Ashley West, BA
GRADUATE
Erin Butcheck, MFA
updated 5/07
Erin is an Assistant Professor at USM. Erin says the department is growing, especially dance ed, and the faculty consists of a nice blend of veteran and new faculty.
Roy Clayton Daniel, III, MFA
updated 2/07
Clay Daniel, MFA 2006, is currently on faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV, where he is director of the Dance minor within the Theatre and Dance Departments. At Wesleyan, he has continued to reconstruct works of American Dance pioneer Charles Weidman, presenting a lecture demonstration on the techniques of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, as well as excerpts of Weidman’s Christmas Oratorio in the fall of 2006. Most recently, he has assisted Deborah Carr on a presentation of Mr. Weidman’s life and work scheduled for November 2007 in Paris, France. Clay’s duties at Wesleyan have included choreography for Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, directing three scenes from Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias, and currently he is choreographing Chicago for the Wesleyan production scheduled to open April 11, 2007.
rcd29@hotmail.com
daniel_c@wvwc.edu
(910) 234 - 1932
Alice Delaney, MA
Sarah Downs, MA
updated 7/07
After a very tearful goodbye to North Carolina in May of 2007, Sarah moved to Manhattan. She is currently living in Murray Hill and dancing as much as possible!
Dionne Griffiths, MA
updated 3/08
I graduated from UNCG in May, 2006 with my M.A. in Choreography. I received my undergraduate degree, a B.A. in Comparative Women's Studies, in 2001 from Spelman College. I have recently completed a year in Trinidad, courtesy of the Fulbright Fellowship.
Alexandra Houston, MFA
updated 11/07
Alexandra Joye Houston is a native of the Washington, D.C. Metro area. She began her intense training as a dance major at Suitland High School for Visual and Performing Arts. She received her BA degree in Drama, with a concentration in Dance/Pre-Medicine from Spelman College in 2003 and in 2006 received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Upon graduation from UNCG, Alexandra relocated to Brooklyn, NY, and was offered an apprenticeship with Urban Bush Women. She has since found a home with Christal Brown's INSPIRIT dance company. Alexandra has been fortunate to work with Bill T. Jones on the Fela Kuti Project and as a teaching artist with the Brooklyn Arts Council. Alexandra is also an emerging dance filmmaker, and her first film short was shown in the Urban Literature Film Festival in 2006 and at the University of Chicago's Eyes on Mosaic conference in 2007. Alexandra is also a freelance writer of dance and urban culture, with articles published in Greensboro's Go Triad and Urban Literature Magazine. In the summer of 2007, Alexandra participated in the Africa and the Diaspora dance intensive workshop in Senegal at the company home of Jant-Bi, under the leadership of Germaine Acogny and other guest artists. This is Alexandra's second season with INSPIRIT and is grateful to be working with such amazing women. Alexandra has also been commissioned this season to set a new work on INSPIRIT and this piece will premier at Tribeca Performing Arts Center as part of the Work and Show Festival in March, 2008.
Talani Torres, MFA
updated 4/07
I think of my UNCG community often!
I am presently a full-time faculty dance instructor at Meredith College in Raleigh, where I will be fulfilling a second One-Year Appointment in 2007-08. Students and faculty have been welcoming and I am learning so much. My dog Gracie volunteers at Meredith as a goose chaser. It's true. She trots behind the head groundskeeper's golf cart and chases geese when called upon to do so. What more could a dog want? We are happy.
Liz Waring, MA
updated 11/06
I am teaching dance at Menchville High School in Newport News, VA. I am getting married Dec. 28, 2006 to Chris McCracken. I can be reached at eamccracken@gmail.com or waring02@sbc.edu. I received my MA in Dance Education in 2006.