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 - 1993
UNDERGRADUATE
Michael Boles, BS
Dance Educator
Resica Boyer, BFA
Tracie Brown, BS
Camille Cannady, BFA (also certification)
Dance Educator, Guilford County Schools for a couple of years.
Holly (Rich) Ferree, BS
holly@highpointbbbs.org
Has been working for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Central Piedmont area (High Point).
Taught dance in Orange County elementary school for 3 years
Jennifer (Rackley) Hofmann, BS
Dance Educator, A+ school in eastern NC
Amy (Maurer) Jones, BS
Runs own studio
Taught in public school in eastern NC for several years
Lisa (Raymer) Laney, BS
Dance educator
Laura McDuffee, BFA
lkmcduff@uncg.edu
Performing with the Jan Van Dyke Dance Group in Greensboro, NC
Currently getting her masters at UNCG, will graduate in May 2002
Administrator, NC Humanities Council, 1997-98
Performed with Gamble Van Dyke Dance Company 1993-1997
UNCG Dance Department secretary 1993-1997
Aida Mohd-Redza, BFA
Kimberly Moser, BS
Dance educator, Winston Salem Forsyth County
1998-99 Teacher of the Year, West Forsyth High School
Established largest dance program in the county at her high school (now with two teachers)
Marla (Kirkland) Neely, BFA
mneely@ncdance.org
Director of Audience Development for North Carolina Dance Theater
Amy Offerdahl, BFA (also certification)
Cally (Chance) Rakita, BS
Now teaching elementary special education in New Mexico (no dance in New Mexico schools)
Completed graduate school in dance therapy (Columbia College, Chicago)
Stanley Reynolds, BFA
Tracie (Brown) Simpson, BS
Mitzi Whitehead, BFA
Sherrie Williams, BS
Tina Yarborough, BFA
Free lance choreographer, performer and teacher, Greensboro area, Part-time faculty, UNCG, fall 1997.
GRADUATE
Mary Ellen Agen, MFA
Lisa Boguslaw, MFA
Performer, Gamble Van Dyke Dance Company, fall 1993
Faculty, Murray State University
Part-time faculty, Catawba College
Kevin Dillon, MFA
Tracy Maxfield, MFA
Lorrie Monte, MFA
Free lance choreographer and teacher, Lewisburg, WVA
Amy (Carter) Orr, MFA
Associate Artistic Director and dance instructor, Atlanta Ballet
(1998-present), Dance Instructor and choreographer, LaGrange School of
Ballet and LaGrange Ballet, (1997-present), Dance Instructor, Ruth
Mitchell Dance Theatre (1995-present), Soloist, Ruth Mitchell Dance
Theatre and Gwinnett Dance Ensemble; Guest Artist, Festival Ballet
Company (1995-present), Artistic Dir, YMCA Dance Program (1995-1997),
Dance Specialist, gifted and talented magnet school, Raleigh, NC
(1993-94)
Patricia Ward, MA
updated 5/07
Ms. Ward is founder and director of Moving Voices, The Isadora Duncan Cultural Exchange, specializing in Isadora Duncan Dance and The Movement Arts. She is a post-graduate Isadora Duncan Movement Analyst, affiliated with the Isadora Duncan International Institute. Ms. Ward is among the Artist Faculty with Young Audiences of Virginia and an Artist-in-Education Resident with The Virginia Commission for the Arts. Ms. Ward is adjunct faculty through the VCCS, teaching modern dance, dance history, humanities, and Pilates/Yoga, and holds K-12 teaching credentials in Virginia and North Carolina. In addition to a Post-Baccalaureate degree in dance from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, she holds a Master of Arts degree in Dance/Related Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As soloist and ensemble performer with her Children's Cultural Exchange and Adult Repertoire Ensemble, Ms. Ward presents Duncan reconstructions as well as contemporary pieces reflecting the Duncan idiom. She serves on the Leadership for the Arts Council through Virginia Tech, is a member of NRDE, NDEO, CORD, The Sacred Dance Guild, CREDO, and SAH.