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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 - 1990
UNDERGRADUATE
Marianne Adams
April Allen
Kacy Crabtree
updated 7/07
I came to Lees-McRae College after graduating in 1990 to start a dance program. Much was learned about trying to develop a traditional dance major within a predominantly musical theatre program within a small liberal arts college and in the rural mountains of western NC. The projects completed in my curriculum, history, phenom, and dance comp class at UNCG were implemented immediately! I was the only full-time dance faculty then, and I still am now! Our dance program lasted for 12 years before we had to delete the major; the dance program continued with classes, a few guest artists, performances, field trips, etc.
My graduates have all done exceptionally well. One would not suspect that students coming from such a small program and limited resources could excel so productively. A couple of students have gone on to graduate programs, one is the artistic director of his own company in WVA, two teach dance education part-time in public schools, a few stage manage for dance companies and operas, a handful are working in arts management, and the remaining dance graduates own and/or work in dance studios or cultural arts centers. I contribute this to the balance between their training in arts education, liberal arts education, small faculty-student ratio, and a focus in dance.
Currently, I do more administrative work, serving as the Assistant Chair and Program Coordinator for the Division of Performing Arts. Assessments and report-writing galore!!!! While I still direct the dance program, the focus is to train integrated performing artists. I'm excited to be working on a museum project at the National Museum of Dance, where I serve as project coordinator and co-curator. The focus of the exhibit is "Dance Education in America."
Amie (Yandle) Davidson, BS
Dance Educator, Guilford County Schools, 1998-99 Teacher of the Year at Weaver Education center
Kathryn (Seaver) Merino, BS
updated 11/05
kamerino@saint-marys.edu
Currently
living in Raleigh, NC; married and proud mom of 2 boys Instructor of Dance
at Saint Mary's School since 1998 Previously performed with Kathy Dunn Hamrick
Dance Company Former member/choreographer of Even Exchange Dance Theater;
Rainbow Dance Company Has taught at Meredith College, Arts Together, Austin
Community College, Raleigh School of Ballet, and in the Wake and Durham
County Schools
Susan Rubin
Lainey Tant
Jennifer Twiggs
Lisa Wilder
Director of Southeast Raleigh Magnet HS Dance Department
lwilder@wcpss.net
JoAnn (Johnson) Young
GRADUATE
Doug Risner, MFA
updated 4/08
Doug is associate professor of dance at Wayne State University. Recently, WSU fully funded Doug's research study proposal, Boys and Male Youth in Dance: A Qualitative Study of Male Participation & Access in Dance Education in the US.
Doug Risner, Ph.D., MFA
Chair, Maggie Allesee Department of Dance
3226 Old Main/ 4841 Cass Avenue
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
313.577.9879 direct line
313.354.1140 cell
313.577.5691 fax
www.dance.wayne.edu
email: drisner@wayne.edu (work)
sprgarden@aol.com (personal)