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 - 1999
UNDERGRADUATE
Jessica Campbell, BS
Dance educator, Alamance County Schools
Evette Calhoun Clemons, BS
Dance educator, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Nicole Cox, BA
nikketa26@hotmail.com
Currently living in Los Angeles, CA, with UNCG dance alum, Chris Stanley
Dancing with Diavolo Dance Theater, and on tour with the company in Japan, summer 2002
Working with Collage Dance Theater for site specific work
Teaching Yoga and Pilates, taking classes at "Yogaworks", and beginning certification
Personal assistant to jazz singer, Brenda Russell
Dance photo of Nikki recently featured on the cover of the Journal of Dance Education
Previously performed with Tiffany Rhynard, John Gamble Dance Theater,
the Jan Van Dyke Dance Group, and was the Development
Assistant for the American Dance Festival. Cox was featured on a 2001
cover of Journal of Dance Education. She was
invited into her company of choice, Tongue, which she tells us is "an
athletic modern dance company with influences of Ashtanga"; Nikki will
be on tour with the company throughout California as well as Canada and
Mexico. She is also also teaching Pilates & Yoga at Loyola
Marymount University and other locations, and serving as personal
assistant for the singer/songwriter, Brenda Russell. And
Nikki is carrying forward UNCGīs service motto, with Latino kids in East Los Angeles. In between all this she is
managing to get together with other UNCG alums in the area for improvisation jams, with the intention of continuing to choreograph.
Curtis Drake, BA
Living in New York with alums Devona Cartier and Leigh Hefflin
Dancing with Devona Cartierīs new company
Jeannine Eason Montgomery, BS
updated 12/04
Currently teaching second grade in Durham N.C. and loving it. Taught
dance at the Durham School of the Arts from 2000-2002. Have performed
around the triangle with Heather Mimms, Tiffany Rynard and Dancers and
The Postcard Dance Project.
Joy Fortner, BA
Dara Gordon Schmoyer, BFA
updated 2/07
Currently, Dara lives outside Philadelphia, PA with her husband Eric.
Dara has been the Performing Arts Division Leader at Longwood Gardens (longwoodgardens.org) since May, 2003. Longwood Gardens is an international tourist destination, attracting close to a million visitors a year, known both as a highlight in the Greater Philadelphia cultural scene and as one of the world?s premier horticultural showplaces. Dara oversees Longwood?s year-round performing arts program presenting over 400 events annually.
Dara is active in the performing arts field, serving on the Summer Presenters Steering Committee, as an active member of PA Presenters and as a peer panelist for Pennsylvania Cultural Fund. In May, Dara visited Taiwan as a guest of Council for Cultural Affairs. Previously, Dara worked at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia where she assisted the Managing Director with programming and development duties. Dara is very grateful to Jan Van Dyke who began her on this career path as the Administrator for the NC Dance Project.
Dara received a Post-baccalaureate certificate in Business from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gwen Hastings, BFA
Currently living in New York, taking dance classes
Dancing with Devona Cartierīs new company
Jill (Self) Hinson, BS
Dance educator, Charlotte-Mecklenberg County Schools
Maria Moretz, BA
Carrie Plew, BFA
carrieplew@hotmail.com
Performing with the Jan Van Dyke Dance Group out of Greensboro, NC
Part-time Theater Teacher for Williams High School, Burlington, NC
Performer with "The New Hopeville Comics", NYC Fringe Festival, August 2002
Choreographer for local theater companies including, Williams High School and Gallery Players
Certified massage therapist
Previously performed with John Gamble Dance Theater
Dance instuctor for the NC Govenorīs School 2000
AC Satterfield,
(double major BS in ESS, BA in DCE)
Jessica Sehested, BA
Moved to NYC to dance
Previously performed with Butterworth Dance in Philadelphia, PA
Has performed with various people in Philly and New York. Is a
certified Pilates Instructor and owns her own studio called Body
Evolutions.
Chris Stanley, BFA
GOGAUX@hotmail.com
Currently living in Los Angeles, CA, and dancing with the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
Moved to Philadelphia to dance, 2001
Taught
part-time at the High Point Ballet, a new studio in Southern Pines, and
performed with Shady Sady and the Shadows after graduation
Danced with Theater West Virginia for summer 2000
Danielle Trudeau, BA
Moved to San Francisco to dance
Lindsay Werner, BA
Returned to UNCG to work on Dance teaching certificate
Katie Wright (-Sabbatino), BS
updated 12/04
From Katie:
This notice is to inform all interested and concerned parties of my new
career status. After exploring 6 different counties in one of the
biggest metropolitan areas in the country (with only one dance
education opening this summer), I am now gainfully employed with the
Baltimore County schools as a dance educator on a contractual basis!
My new position will include delivering integrated language arts based
dance to Title I pre-Kindergarten classes on a weekly basis. This will
be a traveling position, as I will travel to 20 of the countyīs 40
Title I schools and will work with each pre-K class individually.
Additionally, I will work with one school in particular, focusing on
integrated dance with the Kindergarten and first grade students. This
is particularly exciting for me, as the principal has chosen to expand
the program this year to include the current students in first grade
who participated in the program last year as Kindergartners.
Possibilities for expansion into other grade levels have been discussed
as well.
Contact Katie at:
Katie Wright-Sabbatino
President, DANCE 2004
8488 Greystone Lane, Apt. 2F
Columbia, MD 21045
Home/Fax: 410.715.0446
ktbug6254@aol.com or dancewright@aol.com
GRADUATE
Zita Bidleman, MA
Performer with the Liz Lerman Hallelujah Community Project - June, 2002
Teaching dance at the Downtown Middle School of Winston-Salem
Traves Butterworth, MFA
updated 9/07
Upon graduation, Traves founded Butterworth Dance Company (BDC), now in San Diego, CA. He has
choreographed over 30 dances for his company over the past eight years and has shown work in
Hawaii, California, New York, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico. The newest adventure is the start-up of BDC’s youth company BINARY, and relocating both companies into their very own studio space – studio BDC.
www.butterdance.org
email: travesb@gmail.com
Amanda (Riner) Clifford, MA
clifford626@nyc.rr.com
Currently living in New York City with her husband
Teaching Dance in a High School Program
Wrote the first standard based curriculum in NY State
Melissa Saint Amour (Jennings), MFA
updated 10/04
mejenn105@aol.com
www.artsuniteddc.org
Dance teacher at East Forsyth High School (Winston-Salem), 1999-2001
Adjunct faculty at George Mason University (VA) 2001-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, spring 2003
Co-founder/dance director/choreographer for Arts United of Washington,
Founded in 2003: Provides professional performances and outreach education combining dance, live music, and theater (DC).
Recipient of Young Emerging Artist Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 2004.
Currently on faculty at Montgomery College (MD) and Fillmore Arts Center
(DC), and preparing for Arts Unitedīs second production, Meet Me at the Cafe.
Modern
dance (influenced by ballroom and jazz) with a live jazz combo and an
original script. Runs October 23-31 at the Jack Guidone Theater (DC).
Aixa Kidd, MFA
updated 12/06
I have just become Director of Alumni Affairs at Clark University in Worcester, RI.
Karen Mozingo, MFA
updated 3/08
Karen is Assistant Professor of Dance and Theatre at SUNY-Potsdam. Before this, Karen was awarded a renewal of the German Chancellor Fellowship for dissertation research in Germany during July and August, 2006. She has received a German Historical Institute Dissertation Fellowship for archival research in Summer, 2007, and a Presidential Fellowship from The Ohio State University to complete the writing of her dissertation during academic year 2007-2008. As a German Chancellor Fellow in Cologne during 1999-2000, Karen choreographed and performed a solo concert in Cologne and studied the history of Ausdruckstanz and Tanztheater. Karen received her M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1999), and her M.A. in Theater Arts from Case Western Reserve University (1996).
Contact: karen_mozingo@hotmail.com
Heather Nabors, MFA
updated 7/06
Adjunct Faculty at Greensboro College (2005 - present)
Program Director for NC Dance Project
Dance Instructor at City Arts
Adrienne Sansom, MA
Faculty, Auckland (New Zealand) College of Education
Liz Staruch, MFA
updated 11/07
Liz is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at West Chester University, West Chester, PA (outside of Philadelphia). In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is the faculty choreographer for WCU's musical theatre productions, and received a national commendation for her choreography of Hair! by the American College Theatre Festival in 2005. Prior to joining WCU's faculty, she worked with Group Motion Dance Theatre in Philadelphia. Her choreography has been presented in Philadelphia, NYC, NC, VA, and OH.
Email: danceforu@hotmail.com