SPRING

2015

DANCE DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER

DANCE DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER

Spring 2015

UNC Charlotte
College of Arts & Architecture Department of Dance

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INSIDE THIS VOLUME

Table of Contents
Faculty Concert and NC Dance Festival | Page 3
Master Classes | Pages 4-5
Performance at Joyce Theater in NYC | Page 6
ACDA Southeast Conference in Georgia | Page 7
Collegium for Africana Diaspora Dance | Pages 8-9

Sed et tellus at quam sagittis pharetra. Donec faucibus sagittis justo.

Spring Dance Concert | Page 10

Alumni Spotlights | Pages 11-15
Faculty Spotlights | Pages 16-20
Other Happenings in Spring 2015 | Pages 21- 22
A Look back into Fall 2014 | Pages 23-24

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FACULTY CONCERT & NC DANCE FESTIVAL

The UNC Charlotte Department of

Each year since 1991, the North

Dance presented two back-to-

Carolina Dance Festival has

back evenings of diverse

toured a program across the

performance, showcasing faculty

state, highlighting the work of

choreography on Friday, January

North Carolinas professional

23, and hosted the North Carolina

choreographers. The 2014-15

Dance Festival (NCDF) on

tour ended in Charlotte on

Saturday, January 24. Both

January 24 and featured work by

productions took place at 7:30 pm

former Pilobolus dancer Gaspard

in the Anne R. Belk Theater in

Louis, Elon University professor

Robinson Hall.

Sara Ruth Tourek, UNC School of

the Arts professor and former

The Faculty Dance Concert

featured guest and faculty
dancers in works by professors
Gretchen Alterowitz, E.E. Balcos,
and Kim Jones. Charlotte
Ballet principals Anna Gerberich
and Pete Leo Walker performed
Alterowitzs contemporary
ballet, Holding Ground,
choreographed in fall 2012 for the
Atlanta Ballets Wabi Sabi series.

North Carolina Dance Theatre

member Diego Carrasco Schoch,
Durham-based choreographer
Leah Wilks, and Fayettevillebased choreographer Kristen
Jeppsen Groves. The UNC
Charlotte performance also
included a work by Davidson
College professor Alison Bory and
a repeat performance of Kim
Joness Shedding.

Whitney V. Hunter and Pauline

Sylviane Legras of the Martha
Graham Dance Company and
Daniel Fetecua Soto of the Jos
Limn Company joined Kim
Jones in Shedding, performed to
Handels aria Cara sposa,
performed live by countertenor
Reginald Mobley. Soto also dance
da 1957 solo by Jos
Limn, Mazurkas, set to music by
Chopin.
The January 23 program also
included a contact improvisation
piece by E.E. Balcos and guest
artist Alicia Grayson, a work by
Greensboro-based choreographer
and NCDF director Jan Van Dyke,
and two works by the AGA
Collaborative (Alterowitz, Alison
Bory, and Amanda Hamp).

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MASTER CLASSES
Master Class with
former Martha
Graham Principal
Dancer Denise Vale
Denise Vale of the Martha
Graham Dance Company
taught a Master Class for
UNC Charlotte Dance
Students on January 19th,
the day before their
performance in the
Graham Co. concert at the
Knight Theater!

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MASTER CLASSES

Horton Master
Class- March
21st

(Pictured left)
UNC Charlotte
dancers working
through a lateral
and flat back series
with Danse4Nia
Repertory
Ensemble's
Antoinette
Coward-Gilmore.


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MARTHA GRAHAMS STEPS IN THE STREET

PERFORMANCE AT JOYCE THEATER IN NYC
UNC Charlotte traveled
to NYC to perform
Martha Graham's "Steps
in the Street" by UNC
Charlotte Dance majors
and alums. In January
they performed this work
successfully at the
Knight Theater in
conjunction with the
Martha Graham Dance
Company. They were
excited to perform the
work again in NYC at the
Joyce Theater for the
Martha Graham
Company season. The
NYC performance was
Saturday Feb. 14th.

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AMERICAN COLLEGE DANCE ASSOCIATION

SOUTHEAST REGIONAL FESTIVAL
AT GEORGIA COLLEGE
2 Faculty Members
and 19 Students
Participated in the
ACDA Southeast
Conference in
Georgia
On March 18-21st , Dance
faculty Delia Neil and E.E.
Balcos led a group of 19
UNC Charlotte dance
majors to the March 18-21
American College Dance
Association (ACDA)
Southeast regional festival
at Georgia College.

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COLLEGIUM FOR AFRICANA DIASPORA DANCE

The Department of Dance will host the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) on April 9
and 10, 2015. CADD is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring,
promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity.
CADD was founded at Duke University; UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Dance Takiyah Nur
Amin is one of the groups original members.
The UNC Charlotte meeting of CADD includes two public events. Both are FREE and ALL ARE
WELCOME.
Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 pm in Robinson Hall, Room 103 Keynote Address by Thomas F.
DeFrantz, Ph.D. "SWITCH: The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political
Leadership, and Black Popular Culture"
When black social dances are practiced by American political leaders, as when First Lady
Michelle Obama demonstrates the Dougie in her Let's Move" anti-obesity campaign, or when
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dances alongside others during her 2012 tour of Africa,
black social dance moves toward a center of considerations of embodied knowledge. This lecture
wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived
in the bodies of elected officials. In addition we will consider the commercial and sociallyinscribed leaders of popular culture, including Beyonce and Madonna, as arbiters of African
American social dance.
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Ph.D. is professor of African & African American Studies and Dance at
Duke University. His research focuses on theories of African diaspora aesthetics, intersections of
dance and technology, and dance historiography.
Friday, April 10, at 6:30pm in Robinson Hall, Studio 118 Public Roundtable with the Founding
Members of CADD. Reception to Follow in Robinson Hall Lobby.
Each CADD founding member will share their current research concerning theories of Black
performance with roundtable attendees followed by a question and answer period. Participants
include Takiyah Nur Amin (UNC Charlotte), Raquel Monroe (Columbia College Chicago) Makeda
Thomas (Dance and performance Institute, Trinidad), C. Kemal Nance (University of Illinois),
Jasmine Johnson (Brandeis University), Carl Paris (Drexel University), John Perpener
(Independent Researcher) and Thomas F. DeFrantz, Andrea Woods, and Ava LaVonne Vinesett
(Duke University.)
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COLLEGIUM FOR AFRICANA DIASPORA DANCE

CONTINUED
*Support for these events provided by the College of Arts + Architecture - Department of
Dance, The Chancellors Diversity Challenge Fund and SLIPPAGE:
Performance|Culture|Technology

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SPRING DANCE CONCERT

The Department of Dance
presented a spring concert April
16-18 at 7:30 pm
and April 19 at
2:00 pm in the
Anne R. Belk
Theater of
Robinson Hall. A
showcase of
different dance
styles, the concert
featured student
performers in
works
choreographed by
dance faculty
Gretchen
Alterowitz, E.E.
Balcos, Kim
Jones, and Rachel
Tucker.
Alterowitzs contemporary
ballet What tread in solidarity,
what lament is a piece for 11
dancers set to music by Gustav

(Top) A view from the

wings of "Mauri- A
Breath of Life" by
faculty Kim Jones.
Photo by K.S. UNCC

Mahler and Max Richter. Pulse,

choreographed by Balcos, is
inspired by and set to the nuevo
tango music of Argentine
composer Astor Piazolla.
Domestic violence is the subject
of Tuckers Suite Wonder, with
music by Stevie Wonder. Kim
Jones created Mauri Breath of
Life in consultation with Rodney
Bell, a celebrated dancer of Maori

(Left)E.E. Balcos cast

for the Spring Dance
Concert is raring to go!

descent, for a cast of 10 dancers.

The movement is inspired by

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
Ali Duffy
Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Tech University/Artistic Director of
Flatlands Dance Theatre

Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Dance, UNC Charlotte (2001)
Master of Fine Arts, Choreography, UNC Greensboro
(2009)
PhD, Dance, Texas Woman's University (forthcoming)
Hometown: Home "region" Virginia/North Carolina
Ali Duffy moved to Lubbock, Texas, in 2009 to join the
faculty at Texas Tech University. The following year, she
co-founded Flatlands Dance Theatre and has since artistically directed all of the company's productions. Her
choreography has been presented in numerous venues and festivals across the US, and in 2009 she received
the Kristina Larson Excellence in Choreography award.
As a writer, Ali covers the American Dance Festival at Duke University for World Dance Reviews and has also
been published in Ballet-Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit Magazine, Classical Voice of North Carolina, The World and
I, and is featured in The Longwood Guide to Writing. The Dance Critics Association named her their honorary
Gary Parks Scholar in 2008, and she was elected to the DCA National Board of Directors in 2010. Her written
research has been presented at the International Conference on the Arts in Society in Sydney, Australia, the
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Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and the 26 Annual Conference on the First Year
Experience in San Francisco. Texas Tech also honored her with the 2010 Gloria Lyerla Memorial Research
Grant.
"There are so many meaningful moments (from my time at UNC Charlotte), but here are two especially
important experiences for me," Ali says. "My first course at UNC Charlotte was a Jazz class with Karen
Hubbard. I was immediately struck by Karen's infectious energy and love for movement. She taught me a lot
about adapting to different dance styles and the importance of understanding a dance's history. And working
with Delia Neil was a highlight of my university experience. She pushed me to find places in my technique that
I didn't know were there; she encouraged me to pursue higher endeavors, which is so important because
everyone needs an advocate in college; and she gave me opportunities to succeed, which I am grateful for."

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
Ali says that the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance provides students with a comprehensive study of
performance, choreography, scholarship, and dance
education, resulting in a well-rounded education.
"I would enthusiastically recommend the dance
program at UNC Charlotte because of its innovative
approach to the study of multiple contexts and
perspectives of dance. My education at UNC Charlotte
made me a desirable employee upon graduation. The
faculty were incredibly supportive of my desire to
involve myself in a range of activities and areas of
interest, and because of this diversity of experience
gained during college, I found myself advantaged in
the professional dance field. In the UNC Charlotte dance program, I became skilled in multiple genres of technique
and performance. I gained professional experience as a student teacher and an intern with NCDT (now Carolina
Ballet), and was supported in my endeavor to dance competitively as an athlete with the university dance team. I
learned much about performance, history, and critical thought at UNC Charlotte, but equally importantly, I learned
life and career skills from a caring yet rigorous faculty."
In 2015, Ali was named the inaugural Distinguished Alumna in the Department of Dance.

On Friday, March 13, the College of Arts + Architecture honored five Distinguished Alumni. This was the first of
what will become an annual celebration of the College's many accomplished graduates. Photos by Daniel Coston.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
Madeline Jazz Harvey
Dancer, Teacher, and Resident
Choreographer with Carolina
Ballet Theatre, Greenville, SC

Education:
Master of Fine Arts in Choreography,
Jacksonville University (forthcoming)
Bachelor of Arts in Dance/Professional
Training Certificate in Dance, UNC Charlotte
(2010)
Hometown:
Charlotte, N.C.
Madeline Jazz Harvey taught at the School of the North Carolina Dance Theatre (now Charlotte Ballet), School of
Carolina Ballet Theatre, and Davidson College before joining Greenville's Carolina Ballet Theatre in 2010, where
she has helped develop curricula for community outreach programs and performed and created new work. Having
begun her training at NCDT/Charlotte Ballet, she pursued the Professional Training Certificate with the company
while a student at UNC Charlotte.
"During my time at UNC Charlotte I saw tremendous improvements in my fundamental classical and modern
dance techniques," Madeline says. "Abundant performance opportunities enhanced my artistic choices as a
dancer and choreographer. I gained knowledge in an immense variety of subjects." She recalls fondly
opportunities to dance masterpieces such as Martha Graham's Steps in the Street and the pas de deux from Don
Quixote.
"The faculty is incredibly supportive and personally invested in every student. The coursework encourages
grounded and versatile dancers. I was so inspired, not just by courses within the dance department, but by classes
of Asian poetry, African American history, and women's studies." Madeline says that the experience at UNC
Charlotte shifted her post-performance career goals: "Upon retirement from my performance career, my dream is
to teach dance in a University."

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
Patrice Commodore

Director, Order My Steps Christian Dance Studio

Hometown:
Washington, D.C.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Dance, UNC Charlotte (2010)
Patrice Commodore is striving to uplift and transform the
east Charlotte community through dance and ministry. In
2010, she established Order My Steps, Christian Dance
Company (OMS). Her intentions are to make dance
accessible to anyone despite their age or any other
perceived form of adversity, whether social or
economic. Patrices philosophy is simple, Dance is for

everyone. You can enter her studio on any given Friday and see children as young as three and adults as
old as 60 dancing. There is a whole segment of the population who have been left behind for various
reasons," she says. "We seek to eliminate the barriers, for we understand the benefits of dance for the mind,
body and spirit. The studio is a place of invention and discovery that goes beyond choreographic steps. In
many ways the studio is a metaphor for life, a place to take risk, create, share, and discover.
It was at UNC Charlotte, under the supportive direction of former Dance Department Chair Pamela Sofras
and dance education professor Diane McGee-Valley, that Patrice developed a passion for teaching. She
speaks with pride about studying under the tutelage of Professor McGee-Valley: Professor McGee was a
genius in the classroom. She understands dance but she also understands people and values the things that
make us unique. Thus, I was always encouraged to trust myself and find my own voice. That belief in self is
something that she passes on to her students. OMS does not serve to encourage competition, but instead it
serves to acknowledge the gifts of each student and build on those gifts so that they may be shared with one
another and the community as a source of hope and inspiration.
When beginning to look for competent, passionate people to support her vision, Patrice started right here at
home in Charlotte, NC. Five out of the six teachers are not only alumni of UNC Charlotte, but are also
teachers for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. Their specialties range from dance education and elementary
education, to special education. "Their diversity, heart for teaching, and depth of knowledge and training is
exactly what is needed to breathe life into the east Charlotte community."

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
Larissa Kern Dancing With Martha Grahams Legacy
Along with 15 other passionate UNC
Charlotte dance students and alumni, I
performed Grahams Steps in the Street
last Tuesday at the Knight Theater. Since
August weve been coached by regisseur,
UNC Charlotte professor and past
Graham Company member Kim Jones,
and on January 20 we became one of the
few student groups to perform Steps on
the same bill as the Martha Graham
Dance Company. This gave us the
opportunity to spend two days with some
crazy, passionate, and very talented
dancers, and absorb all we could.

Photo by Chris Record

-Excerpt from Larissa Kerns article as

part of the Charlotte Arts Journalism
Alliance, with support from the Wells
Fargo Foundation

Caitlin Swett and Danielle Corbin

Rehearsal shoot with UNCC Dance alum

Larissa Kern and art student Josh Peters of
Charlotte Viewpoint and UNCC Dance alum's
Danielle Corbin and Caitlyn Swett for
the WOMEN'S SHOWCASE: Dance
Performance by Female Choreographers of
Charlotte! (Also interviewed and pictured:
Sarah Ingel of Triptych Collective and Juliana
Tilbury of PLEXUS dance)

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FACULTY SPOTLIGHTS
Kim Jones

A choreographer, dancer and native New Yorker, Kim Jones is Assistant Professor of Dance at UNC Charlotte
and a rgisseur for the Martha Graham Resource Center. She danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company
(2001-2006) and the Metropolitan Opera
Ballet (1998-2003) and served as a principal
dancer in the US National Tour of The King
and I (2005).
Internationally, Jones has presented her
choreography at the Pietrasanta
International Dance Festival (Pietrasanta,
Italy), Teatro Astra and Teatro Alfa (Turin,
Italy) and Drachengasse Theater (Vienna,
Austria). Nationally, she has presented her
work at Center Stage (Santa Barbara, CA),
Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC), Swing
Space (NYC) and regionally for the North
Carolina Dance Festival Tour and the North
Carolina Dance Alliance. In 2011-2012,
Jones created a new work, Autumn Sunrise,
for North Carolina Dance Theater II (now Charlotte Ballet II).
In 2012-2013, Jones reconstructed Martha Grahams Imperial Gesture (1935), supported by a UNC Charlotte
Faculty Research Grant. The work received its premiere in January 2013 at the Knight Theater in Charlotte in a
performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC) presented by the College of Arts +
Architecture. Imperial Gesture had its New York City premiere at the Joyce Theater in February 2013 and is now
on tour with MGDC. The costume reconstruction of Imperial Gesture is currently displayed in the Dance and
Fashion exhibition at the museum at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Jones received a 2010-2011 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) American Masterpieces grant to restage
Martha Grahams Primitive Mysteries (1931) for UNC Charlotte. Jones has also restaged student performances
of Grahams Panorama (1935), performed on the January 2013 concert with MGDC, andSteps in the
Street (1936), which will receive a Charlotte performance with MGDC in January 2015 and a Joyce Theater
performance in February 2015 as part of the MGDC University Partners Showcase.
Jones received her MFA summa cum laude from Florida State University and her BFA from Marymount
Manhattan College. In 2013, she received the Board of Governors' Teaching Award for the College of Arts +
Architecture.

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Retrieved from The Charlotte Observer- Article

by Michael J. Solender
When the internationally renowned Martha
Graham Dance Company takes the stage at
Charlottes Knight Theater on Tuesday, Kim
Jones a former Graham dancer and current
assistant professor of dance at UNC Charlotte
will be watching with more than a passing
interest.
Jones, 40, is re-staging Steps in the Street, a
section from Grahams classic 1936 masterwork,
Chronicle. And in an unusual move, students from UNC Charlotte will perform the piece Tuesday, one
of the rare occasions for students to share the stage with a professional troupe.
Weve been working over the entire fall semester in rehearsal and are thrilled to have this opportunity
not only to perform the piece in Charlotte but in New York City as well, said Jones, who performed with
the company from 2002 to 2006. She remains with the troupe as a regisseur, a choreographer who restages productions.
Jones and her students will also perform the piece at the Graham Companys University Partners
Showcase at the Joyce Theater in New York City on Valentines Day. The event features students from
select national dance training programs.
She choreographed more than 180 masterworks, was the first dancer to perform at the White House,
and was granted the United States highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom. In 1998, Time
magazine named her the Dancer of the Century. Her American Modernist style is identifiable by the
use of contraction and expansion, highly exaggerated gestures and rhythm completely unlike that of
traditional ballet.
Grahams 2015 season theme is Shape & Design. With this program, the company pays tribute to its
founders sculptural and architectural aspects of choreography.
Each season, we choose a different lens to view Grahams work, as well as look at new work by other
choreographers, said Janet Eilber, 63, artistic director. Steps in the Street, for example, uses no set,
has all the performers in black, and the geometry of their patterns is used to create emotional impact.
The shapes provide a provocative statement.
Eilber said Tuesdays performance will open with Diversion of Angels, a work that creates a world
without gravity and is all about love. Next will be a short video of Graham performing Lamentation,
her well-known solo performed while seated and encased in a fabric tube; here, her stretching and
torturous movements represent expressions of lament and grief. Two new works collectively titled
Lamentation Variations and inspired by the original will follow.
The second half of the performance features two works inspired by Greek mythology: Errand into the
Maze, is derived from the myth of Theseus and a confrontation with a Minotaur; Echo is based on
the tale of Narcissus.
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FACULTY SPOTLIGHTS
Gretchen Alterowitz
Gretchen Alterowitz, Assistant Professor in the Department of
Dance at UNC Charlotte, teaches ballet technique and dance
history. Her research addresses ballets dialogues with gender on
and off the stage, focusing on the performance of identity and
feminist making, teaching, and performance practices. Her article
"Toward a Feminist Ballet Pedagogy: Strategies for Teaching
Ballet Technique in the 21st Century" is forthcoming from
the Journal of Dance Education in 2014. Alterowitz
choreographed the opera-ballet,Songs of the Fisherman, which
had its American premiere at UNC Charlotte in January 2012 and
its international premiere at the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam in
August 2013. Her piece, Holding Ground,was performed by the
Atlanta Ballet in the company's emerging choreographer series,
Wabi Sabi, in 2012. Additionally, her choreography has been
presented by the 11th Annual Women on the Way Festival (San
Francisco); the Emerging Choreographers Showcase (Monterey); and the North Carolina Dance Alliance
Choreographers Showcase (Durham).
Alterowitz is a member of AGA Collaborative, a trio of dance
artists-scholars who collaborate to create experimental
research and performance, with Alison Bory, Assistant
Professor at Davidson College and Amanda Hamp, Faculty
Fellow at Colby College. AGA Collaborative recently performed
the work, Like a turtle without a shell, or crows feet at Spoke
the Hub (Brooklyn); Queens University (Belfast); UNC
Charlotte; and Luther College. Alterowitz regularly presents her
scholarship at national and international dance conferences,
and her book reviews have been published by CORD's Dance
Research Journal. She received an MFA from the Department
of Dance at the University of Iowa.

Congratulations to dance professor Gretchen Alterowitz, whose

work "Holding Ground" was performed by the Atlanta Ballet at
the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Pictured here are dancers
Alessa Rogers and Ben Stone.

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FACULTY SPOTLIGHTS
E.E Balcos
E.E. Balcos, originally from Minneapolis, has been a professional
dancer and choreographer for nearly 30 years. At the age of 19, he
began studying with modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm at the
Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He has also been a practicing
contact improviser since 1982. As a performer he toured nationally
and internationally with Shapiro & Smith Dance (NYC), Demetrius
Klein Dance Company (FL), Zenon Dance Company, (MPLS) and
worked with renowned choreographers including Danny Buraczeski,
Ping Chong, Sam Costa, Sean Curran, David Dorfman, Joe Goode,
Dwight Rhoden, David Rousseve, Stephanie Skura, and Bill Young.
He performed and presented work throughout the U.S. and in Italy,
Uzbekistan, and the Philippines.
For the stage, he has choreographed over 50 professional works and
30 works for dance students. From 2006 - 2013, his dance company,
E.E.MOTION, was featured with North Carolina Dance Festival,
Charlotte Dance Festival, ADFs Acts to Follow Series, Piccolo
Spoletos Dance at Noon Series in Charleston, SC, and the Minnesota Fringe Festival in Minneapolis. His
choreographic works have also been presented in such well-known venues as Walker Art Center and Intermedia
Arts in Minneapolis, Joyce/Soho and St. Marks Church in New York City, Folly Theatre in Kansas City, Lawrence
Art Center, and at numerous dance festivals, and universities nationally. His collaboration with composer John
Allemeier, Deep Water: The Murder Ballads, an evening-length dance-theatre work was premiered at the Knight
Theatre in Charlotte in 2013. In 2014, Balcos and Allemeier began a professional artist collaborative, Deep Water
Collaborations.
Balcos received grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation, Asian American Renaissance,
Missouri State University, COAS at UNCC, Mecklenburg County Arts & Science Council, and Faculty Research
Grants from UNC Charlotte. He holds a BA in Music from The Colorado College and an MFA in Choreography
from The University of Iowa. He is an Associate Professor teaching Modern technique, Choreography,
Improvisation, and Contact Improvisation. He has been on faculty at Charlotte Ballet (formerly NCDT). He was
also an Artist-in-Residence with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Washington, DC and at the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts in 2009.

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Dance faculty Delia Neil and E.E. Balcos led a group of 19 UNC Charlotte
dance majors to the March 18-21 American College Dance Association
(ACDA) Southeast regional festival at Georgia College.

E.E.'s cast raring to go for

the spring dance concert!

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OTHER HAPPENINGS SPRING 2015

LUNCH FOR
GRADUATING UNCC
DANCE MAJORS
SPRING 2015

UNCC DANCE
STUDENTS
PERFORMING IN THE
MERRY WIDOW

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OTHER HAPPENINGS SPRING 2015

(Pictured Left) Tech
rehearsal for the
faculty concert -Guest
artist Daniel Fetecua-
Soto from the Jose
Limon Co. with dance
faculty, world class
pianist Daniel Knight!

(Pictured Right)
Martha Graham
soloist Ben Schultz
shares his perspective
of Graham's work and
his experience
dancing with the
company.
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A LOOKBACK INTO FALL 2014

Some of the
dance majors
graduating in
December 2014
have lunch with
Dance Faculty
and Staff.

UNC Charlotte
dance student
Dedrick Perkins
recently opened
a dance studio in
Concord.
Photographer
Daniel Coston
stopped in for a
few pictures.
Dedrick will
graduate in 2015.

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A LOOKBACK INTO FALL 2014

E.E Balcos
Improvisation
Class October
22nd, 2014

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