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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 - 1987
UNDERGRADUATE
Mary (Wawro) Agen
Domini Hartsfield (now Domini H. Boling), BS
updated 11/02
Was a Dance/Drama Specialist for Wake County Public
Schools for 15 years, and now runs a her own dance school,
Jubilate School (http://www.jubilateschool.com/). She also
directs the dance ministry at her church, Edenton Street
United Methodist Church, and serves other area churches as
well. E-mail: Jubilateschool@cs.com
GRADUATE
Donald Blumenfeld-Jones, MFA
Earned his PhD from UNCG in Curriculum/Cultural Studies.
Tenured Associate Professor in the School of Education at Arizona State University
Joanne Lawrence
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, MFA
updated 6/08
Kanta has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU. She is tenured at the University of Washington, Bothell. She teaches courses in Performance and Healing, Performance and Community, Creativity Studies, Disability and Human Rights, and Garbage as Art. Her revised dissertation came out in 2006 with Gallaudet Press- Hearing Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf and Multicultural Theater. She will soon send off a book anthology on the Exquisite Corpse to the University of Nebraska Press, which should come out next year. Her next writing projects will center on performance and pedagogy and on dance and architecture. She says, "Always interested in embodiment, I am happy (can't wait) to be returning to work that is more specific to dance and dance studies. My art work continues; I run the student theater and dance group, have been developing and performing my own solo series, and will be in Ghana for two weeks this summer to join an international group of artists on an arts and sustainability project, Project Earth to Art."
Susan [Grubb] Mann, MFA
updated 6/08
Susan Leslie Grubb Mann performed with professional companies, including the Hartford Chamber Ballet, Das Bonner Ballet, and the Sharir Dance Company (modern) before coming to UNCG. Her major teachers and mentors, Igor Youskevitch, Stanley Hall, and Mary Alice Callahan, are responsible for connecting her with the Ballets Russes and Royal Ballet traditions and for helping her find her way as a professional dancer. She has performed as the lead in “Paquita” and “Swan Lake”. Additionally, three principal roles were created for her by Yacov Sharir, and she has performed solos by modern choreographers Jan Van Dyke and Peter Pucci. Susan is the recipient of Maryland State Arts Council Awards for both Solo Dance Performance and Choreography. She has created more than 20 works in four different genres – ballet, modern, dance for the camera, and aerial dance -- since she joined the dance faculty at Towson University in 1989. Her areas of expertise include the teaching and presentation of ballet, repertory and composition, and the dance for the camera curriculum, which she developed for the University.Kellye Smith