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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 - 1998
UNDERGRADUATE
Ragen Carlile, BA
ragencarlile@hotmail.com
Living in Los Angeles, CA
Was married in Raleigh, NC, June 2002
Performer, Jan Van Dyke Dance Group 1998-2000 and other North Carolina choreographers
Former Financial Assistant, American Dance Festival 1998-2000
Company Administrator, Jan Van Dyke Dance Group, 1998-99
Erin Dadey, BA
updated 6/03
esdadey@hotmail.com
Arts Administrator in New York , NY
Joy Davis, BA
joyousdd@aol.com
Spent three months dancing on a cruise ship for Paramount after graduation.
Currently living in NYC
Lisa DiPerri, BA
Teaching dance at a studio in Boston.
Rai Anne Ivey Larkins, BA
updated 12/04
Living in Richmond, VA
Was married in June of 2002
Has been dancing with the Starr Foster Dance Group in Richmond since January of 2003. Website is: www.sfdproject.org
Had a baby girl, Ella, in September 2003.
Rai Anne was with JVD Dance Group from 1999 to 2002
Email address is: RaiIvey@aol.com
Shannon Moore, BA
Renee O´Connor, BFA
Currently living in New York
Getting her Masters in Dance Therapy at Pratt
Will be married, June 2003
Previously performed with John Gamble Dance Theater
Was a Dance Instructor at City Arts and an employee of Art Quest, Greensboro Cultural Center
Christina Pauly, BFA
updated 11/06
weenapauly.com
brianbrooksmovingcompany.com
pinkempowerment.org
email- weena@weenapauly.com
Harper Piver, BFA
updated 11/06
Harper Piver is currently in the MFA program in dance at Arizona State
University. She can be reached by email at harperpiver@hotmail.com.
Danielle Rainville, BA
Rachel Shugarman, BFA
rpshugar@hotmail.com
Currently on the National Tour of "Swing". Check out photos of Rachel on tour at www.photos.yahoo.com/swingpix
Toured with Toneta Akers-Toler and the West Virginia Dance Company, Fall 2000
Performed with Donna Goffredo and Dancers at the Idaho Arts Festival, August 2000
Performed two seasons at Merce Cunningham studio with Ellen Stokes Shadle DanceWorks
Part-time employee of Gaynor Minden Pointe Shoe Company in NYC
Elisa Smith, BA
Maggie Stewart, BS
Dance educator in San Diego, dances with the Eveoke Dance Theater
Pamela Thompson, BFA
GRADUATE
J Hammons, MFA
updtaed 11/06
jhammons36@yahoo.com
I am currently head of the dance department at Lusher where I teach
theatre, as well. It feels great and also completely frustrating to be
part of the rebuilding process of New Orleans. In the past few months I
performed a few times in NY, once with a collaboration of New Orleans
Modern Dancers and Indian Classical Dancers (it was a joint
Katrina/Tsunami memorial performance, blocks away from Ground Zero). In
October, one of the companies I dance with locally was invited to
perform at a festival in NY.
The performance company I belong to will celebrate its 10th anniversary
with an International Theatre Festival - we will perform and be joined
by other US companies, as well as companies from Denmark, Serbia,
Wales, and Canada.
In December, my fiancee and I will be married in Puerto Rico and have our reception on the Epiphany in New Orleans.
Marie Hoffman, MFA
updated 6/03
MCH1Dancer@aol.com
Now living in Los Angeles, CA where she is teaching and choreographing
Taught modern, jazz, musical theater throughout the Triad and North Carolina
Choreographed for community theater organizations throughout the Triad
Performedwith the Jan Van Dyke Dance Group 1998-2000 and others throughout the Triad
Jennifer McNure, MFA
Currently living in Greensboro
Dancer and singer for the John Gamble Dance Theater
Tracy Reeves, MFA
Stephen Stone, MFA
updated 6/07
After 13 years of teaching at the university level, including continued professional work as a performer, choreographer and director, Stephen has entered a new phase of his career.
As of June 1, 2007, he have taken the position of Manager of the Performing Arts Center at Illinois Central College in Peoria, Illinois. He oversees the operations, production design, and all events of the college's performing venues, including such endeavors as performance season planning and calendar of events; promotion, media, & public relations; chairing the Subscription Series selection committee; managing the guest artist process from contract negotiations through event completion and reconciliation; technical support for teaching and performance activities; maintenance, security, and safety; and theater costs and budget management, personnel scheduling and supervision.
In Peoria, Stephen hopes to integrate into the arts community on both the administration / production plane, as well as the performance side of it all. There is a strong and discerning artistic community in Peoria, which is in character with the historic vaudeville euphemismm "If it will play in Peoria, it will play anywhere."
Please feel free to contact Stephen at stephen.stone@icc.edu.
Ava Vinesett, MFA
updated 6/03
ava@duke.edu
Currently living in Durham, NC
Full-time Dance faculty, Duke University
Melinda Waegerle, MA
updated 2/07
mhwaeger@uncg.edu
Dance Educator, Guilford County Schools, through sp. 99
Dance education consultant, workshop leader, etc.
Part time lecturer, UNCG
Teacher of the Year, Parkview Elementary, 1997-98 and 1999-2000