In her honor, Dance is considering donating a percentage of the proceeds from another set of prints to an organization associated with breast cancer. She, too, is an artist. Her style is more impressionistic than his. N.C. Her work has also been exhibited in juried art exhibits in Chapel Hill. His work was selected for the permanent collection of the N.C. Museum of Art, and his painting of the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras was one of six chosen for the stamps for the National Park Service's 1988 Golden Eagle Pass.
Dance also writes about art and builds model boats.
Today, he is known primarily for his realistic nautical scenes. Although he strives to create an image that appears to depict a scene someone might have seen, he does so by putting together elements gathered from different places. The boat might be one he examined closely while it was moored at a dock. The clouds might be ones that he saw driving down the road one day. For the people he has even used himself, his sons and neighbors as models.