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By Dan Nonte, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-4314
Erin Brown Craven and others will perform in the Sept. 26 Alumni Homecoming Dance Concert. Photo by Brett McNeill Photography.
Posted 8-28-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Department of Dance will host its annual Alumni Homecoming Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 in the UNCG Dance Theater.
The Dance Theater is located at the intersection of Walker Avenue and Kenilworth Street. Parking is available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck. Campus maps are available at www.uncg.edu/online_map/.
Tickets are $12 for general admission, $9 for students and seniors, and $6 for UNCG students. For more information or tickets, please call the UNCG Box Office at (336) 334-4849..
The concert is part of the university’s annual homecoming celebration, FallFest. This year’s Alumni Homecoming Dance Concert will feature the work of six alumni:
• Tamara Begley (BFA, 2005) has performed in Washington, D.C.; North Carolina; and Kentucky, and is currently a member of Beth Rodriguez Dance Projects. Based in Louisville, Ky., she co-produces Moving Collective, a venue to promote the works of independent choreographers and contemporary dance. In addition to her work as a producer, dancer and choreographer, Tamara teaches dance and is the Creative Movement Specialist at the Sacred Heart Model School in Louisville.
• Tracie Foster Chan (MFA, 2003) received her early formal training from several schools, including Joffrey Ballet in New York City and the Charleston Ballet Theatre in Charleston, S.C. She has performed professionally in North Carolina with several companies, including The Van Dyke Dance Group, 2Btribe, the High Point Ballet and most recently Weaver Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts. Chan is currently a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher.
• Erin Brown Craven (MFA, 2004) has worked as a choreographer, showing work at the Bickett Art Gallery and Arts Together in Raleigh. She has taught in public and private schools in Kentucky, Oklahoma and North Carolina over the past decade. In 2006, she founded Ardmore Contemporary Dance Company in Oklahoma. Her vision for the company is to build an audience for modern dance in southern Oklahoma through performance and educational residencies.
• Madeleine Reber (MFA, 2008) has performed, taught and choreographed in several east-coast states, and has danced with Amie Dowling’s intergenerational company The Dance Generators (Northampton, Mass.), and Brenda Divelbliss Dance (Boston, Mass.). She has taught dance at East Carolina University and at UNCG, and is a freelance artist. She is currently working with Verbatim on an improvisational performance project.
• Liz Carlton Waddell (BFA, 2004) has danced professionally with The Dance COLEctive and Breakbone Dance Company in Chicago, Ill. She currently lives in Cary and is a certified pilates instructor. She has shown her choreography at venues such as Raleigh’s First Friday and the NCDA Annual Event.
• E. Gwynn Dancers will perform a dance by Sherone Price (BFA, 1992), who is currently an assistant professor of dance at Appalachian State University. Eleanor Gwynn (1967) is an award-winning professor of dance; chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at North Carolina A&T University; and founder, choreographer and artistic director of the E. Gwynn Dancers. A student of the renowned Katherine Dunham School of Dance in New York, Gwynn has studied indigenous dances in West Africa, South Africa, the Caribbean and South America.