RECENT NEWS
Technique Placement Class
Our next placement class for students interested in taking technique classes and who are not placed at a level will be on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5pm in studio 322. Registration is not required.
Undergraduate Dance Audition:
Our next audition for prospective dance majors will be on April 3, 2010. Registration for the audition is required and interested students should submit a completed Audition Request Form to the Department. The registration deadline for the April 3, 2010 audition is Friday, March 26, 2010.
Department of Dance
UNCG Dance Alumni - 1980
UNDERGRADUATE
Deborah (Friia) Burch
Jackie (Stewart) Current
Judith (Bullard) Gaghan
Joyce (Odum) Graverson
Jennifer Lane
Doris Levy
Gayle (Roberson) Lingard
Katherine (Benedict) March
Margaret (Snider) Nieman
Mary (Grady) Norkus
Currently living in Carrboro, NC, with her family
Co-founder and teacher at "Dancenter" Dance Studio (previously "Dance Space") in Chapel Hill, NC
Karen (Laver) Rogers
GRADUATE
Dot Silver, MFA
Guest Artist, UNCG (1980-1987)
Information Specialist, National AIDS Hotline (1987-97)
Adjunct Instructor, Duke U (1989)
Alumni Award, UNCG
NCDA award for significant contributions to dance
Recognition by ACDFA at Kennedy Center (1998)
Amy Yopp Sullivan, MFA
updated 2/07
Amy Yopp Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently developing The Body/Mind Performance Lab, based on the university campus. This lab examines embodied cognition and performance with an interdisciplinary team representing industry, science, social science, technology, and the arts. Sullivan is a past Lilly Teaching Fellow and a recipient of numerous awards including the President and Chancellor's award for Teaching Excellence at SUNY, the Woman of the Year in the Arts award from the community and the town of Brookhaven, a Presidential Merit Award for teaching and creative work from Western Illinois University, and first prize from the Society for Creative Research. She holds distinguished membership in the Society for Collegiate Scholars, is a member of the Blue Key Honor Fraternity, is currently a member of National Dance Educators Association, Congress on Research in Dance, and dance and the Child international.
email: aysullivan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu