page_title: UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts
section_title: School of Dance
hierarchical_section_title: UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts / About / School of Dance
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Channing Coleman Building at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
context_page_description: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the performing and visual arts that is a college within the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina. The College requires an audition on top of an application to the University for entry. The College is divided into four separate schools; Music, Dance, Theatre, and Visual Arts. The College offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Performances for the schools of Dance, Theatre, and Music are held at the black box dance theater, Taylor Theatre, Brown Theatre, the School of Music Concert Hall, and UNCG Auditorium. The School is the largest and most comprehensive performing arts program in North Carolina and one of the largest in the Southeastern United States and the entire country.
context_section_description: Dance was first taught as part of the Women's Physical Education Program at UNCG when the university was known as the State Normal and Industrial School. In 1963, the university created a department comprising four divisions: Health Education, Physical Education, Dance, and Recreation. The Arts Forum had been created in 1943 which brought students and faculty together in painting, music composition, choreography, and writing. Virginia Moomaw was hired in 1945 and became a voice for dance at the Women's College. In 1949 the President of the University of North Carolina, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, approved the Graduate Creative Arts Program which established MFA degree programs in painting, music, writing, and dance. The major in dance was introduced in 1957. In 1970 the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation was formed. In 1980 it was renamed the School of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. In 1984 the instructional divisions were changed into separate departments. In 1989 the Dance Department moved into the Rosenthall Gymnasium and in 1991 became the School of Health and Human Performance. In 2010, the Department of Dance was combined with the Department of Theatre and the School of Music to create the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. In 2016, the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance merged with the Department of Art to create the College of Visual and Performing Arts. 
  UNCG's Dance Program was ranked the best dance school in North Carolina, the best dance school in the Southern United States, and in the top 5 best dance schools in the United States.
  The School of Dance's facilities are located within the Mary Channing Coleman Building, formerly the Human Health and Performance Building. This includes seven dance studios, a black box theater, dressing rooms, offices, a computer lab, and classrooms. Renovations on the Coleman building began in fall 2017 to convert the old swimming pool into an additional two dance studios, as well as to upgrade facilities within the building. Construction was completed in the spring of 2018. Dance concerts are primarily performed in the Dance Theater, as well as the UNCG Auditorium, the University's opera house. The current Head of the School of Dance is Janet Lilly.
  Annual performances within the School include:
  Fall Dance Concert
  Prime Movers Dance Concert
  Spring Dances
  Delta Chi Xi Charity Concert
  BFA Thesis Concert
  Dancers Connect Concert
  MFA Thesis Concerts
  Graduate Showcase
  Dance students also audition and perform in other productions within the School's other departments such as plays, musicals, and operas.
  Students train with a focus in Contemporary Dance technique. They also train in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Capoeira, and African techniques. Somatic Practice courses are also offered such as Yoga, and Kinetic Awareness. Once a semester there is a technique review where students are observed by faculty in their technique classes to see whether or not they are eligible to advance in level.
  The University has exchange programs for dance students at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, the University of Cape Town and the University of Malta. Students from the department have also gone abroad to study dance in Ireland, China, and Italy. UNCG annually attends the National Dance Education Organization Conference, the Mid-Atlantic Regional American College Dance Festival, and the Dance and the Child International Conference where students present their research projects, teaching methods, original curricula, and choreography.
caption: Dance studios and black box theatre are in the Mary Channing Coleman Building
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