Angela Greene.
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Posted 5-21-07
Eastern Guilford High School, which had its building destroyed in a Nov. 1 fire, will hold its end-of-year dance concert Saturday, June 2, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Dance Theater.
Performances at 2 and 7 p.m. will feature modern, jazz and West African works in the theater at Walker Avenue and Kenilworth Street. Tickets are being distributed by the school’s 41 dance students. The dancers will rehearse at UNCG 3:30-6:30 p.m. Friday, June 1.
The dance teacher at Eastern Guilford, Angela Greene, graduated from the high school herself in 1993. “The fall semester was really rough, trying to get the students back together,” she said. “We had no costumes and no music.”
Greene, who graduated from UNCG in 1997 and is a master’s student in the dance department, led a drive to collect CDs and dance wear for her students, work for which she received an Ethel Martus Lawther Alumni Award from UNCG’s School of Health and Human Performance.
“Angela has done a masterful job ensuring that the students continue to enjoy the dance experience,” said Dr. David Perrin, dean of the School of Health and Human Performance. “We are delighted to help by making our dance theater available for this performance.”
“We’re really grateful to UNCG for giving us a place to perform,” Greene said.
Greene thanks the Greensboro Ballet, Penn-Griffin School for the Arts, Weaver Academy, and Burlington Academy of Dance and Arts for supporting Eastern Guilford’s dancers in the difficult months since the fire. The high school’s students have been going to class in Browns Summit at the Gateway University Research Park, a project jointly managed by UNCG and North Carolina A&T State University.
