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Technique Enrollment Policy
(1/24/08)
To ensure an optimal learning environment for all students, to ensure that Dance majors can meet graduation requirements in a timely manner, to ensure fairness for all students, and to make the best use of faculty time, the Department of Dance will follow the procedure detailed below for pre-registration in Fall, 2008 Ballet and Contemporary classes.
Department of Dance
UNCG Dance Alumni - 1992
UNDERGRADUATE
Sandy Blocker, BFA
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Owner, Talking Drums (drum store)
Dance musician, UNCG and Greensboro area
Elisha Gutloff, BFA (also certification)
Dance educator, Wake County Schools
Left in fall 1998 to attend graduate school in dance therapy at Hahnemann
Heather Hartley, BFA
Jennifer Hitchner, BS
Moved to NYC to teach
Beth (Barnes) McLees, BS
updated 11/06
I am still a full time mother of two boys, Jack (8) and Wyatt
(2). My husband, Mike, our boys, and I live in Havelock, NC where
my husband is a Civilian Employee with the Department of Defense at
Cherry Point Marine Air Corps Station. I am not currently
involved in any dance related field.
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Amy (Johnston) Mooney, BFA
Lisa Pickett, BFA
Laura Baxley Potter, BS
Sherone Price, BFA
S64Price@aol.com
Half-time faculty, UNCG
Free-lance chororeographer, performer, teacher, Greensboro area
Visiting Artist, U of Wisconsin-Madison, fall 1997
Previously performed with Gamble-Van Dyke Dance Company
Instructor, American Dance Festival
Married, summer of 2001
Stephanie Price, BS
Currently a Dance Educator in the Wake-County Schools
Dance educator, Robeson County Schools 1992-93
Kathy (Waugh) Reid, BS
Dance educator
Jessica Fields Royston, BFA
1995-present: Life University D.C. Dancers
Patricia Zullo, BFA (also certification)
Working in family business (not dance related);
Has turned down many job offers in dance
GRADUATE
Kelvin Amburgey, MFA
Teaching for the Vanderbilt Dance Group in Nashville, TN
Has taught in various colleges and studios and arts programs in the Southeast
Danced with the Tennesse Dance Theater, 1992 - 1996
Has also been active in theater as a performer, choreographer and director
Karen Anijar, MA
Now teaching in Education Dept, Arizona State University
Received PhD from UNCG
Paul Besaw, MFA
last updated 9/07
Paul pursued his post-graduate studies in dance/theatre at both the University of Arizona and the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught dance and musical theatre at Catawba College in Salisbury and dance at California State University, Sacramento. Presently, he serves on the Board of Directors for ACDFA and is also a founding member of The Misa Table, a performance collective devoted to original movement/theatre projects. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife, Chong-Ho, and daughter, Lily. He is Assistant Professor of Dance and in charge of building a new dance program at The University of Vermont.
Melody Clowney, MA
perritos2@juno.com
Has been teaching Spanish K-7 for the last 9 years, in the Randolph County Schools of NC (1993-1998)
and at CrossRoads Middle (6th Grade) in Columbia, SC since 1998. She is also teaching dance again for
the new dance program at Irmo Middle School (7th-8th grades) as of January 2002.
Darlene Errett, MFA
Working at the New Garden Nursery
Now mother of one
Performed with Gamble/Van Dyke Dance Company until spring 1998
Studio teacher
Etta Galler, MA
Entered doctoral program, UNCG
Completed program up to dissertation before illness intervened
Bess Park Harper, MFA
Currently living in Alabama
Former tenured Faculty, Catawba College
Lauren Lorentz-deHaas, MA
Currently living in Chapel Hill
Dance teacher at Bounds Dance Studio in Chapel Hill
Barbara Michaelson, MFA
Free-lance choreographer and teacher, Lewisburg, WVA
Member, Trillium Arts Collective
Has received many Arts Council grants for her choreography
Jennifer Mitchell, MFA
Dance educator and freelance choreographer, Greensboro area
Part time faculty in Dance, UNCG, spring 1999
Nancy (Gamboian) Sanders, MFA
last updated 10/03
PhD from University of Oregon - Exercise and Sports Science (somantics emphasis)
Currently resides in Tucson, AZ with husband, Sam Sanders
Part time faculty in dance at Pima Community College and Anatomy & Physiology at the Desert Institute (massage school).
Christa Wellhausen, MFA
Coordinator, Dance Concentration, Guilford College
Teacher/Choreographer for Greensboro's CityArts Dance program