Collaborations

Welcome to the Baltimore Dance Bulletin!

Full Circle Dance Company has been committed from the beginning to bringing the broader community into its creative process. Community partnerships enrich our work, and dance enriches our communities. We believe dance can help us understand each other even when words seem inadequate. The Baltimore Dance Bulletin offers a peek inside our world as artists based in the rich, exciting, nourishing artistic milieu that is Baltimore.

The Benefits of Dancing, Free for Everyone

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Nov 18, 20242 min read

The Benefits of Dancing, Free for Everyone

Full Circle Dance Company Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs believes in the power of movement to enhance wellbeing and to create joy. That’s

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Premiering Nov. 3: A Work of Interdisciplinary Inspiration

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Oct 17, 20243 min read

Premiering Nov. 3: A Work of Interdisciplinary Inspiration

Full Circle Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs's new work "From the Source of Our Power" is the result of an extraordinary collaboration. Acc

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A Mother and Daughter's Powerful Journey to a Shared Stage

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Oct 1, 20243 min read

A Mother and Daughter's Powerful Journey to a Shared Stage

Nicole Tucker-Smith is a longtime member of Full Circle Dance Company who has created several works for the company. Her daughter Nala Smith

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Jul 22, 20242 min read

Bringing Baltimore Dance to Ohio

In June 2024, Full Circle Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs and four teaching artists from the company brought a taste of Baltimore to the M

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Music and Dance at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

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Nov 29, 20232 min read

Music and Dance at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Full Circle Dance Company is thrilled to be part of the first event in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's new Casual Conversations...

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Oct 4, 20232 min read

We Walk in Moonlight, One Night Only

For one show only, Full Circle Dance Company and Ballet Theatre of Maryland will present We Walk in Moonlight: A Collaboration of Movement,

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Behind the Scenes: Choreographer Travis D. Gatling

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Jul 16, 20233 min read

Behind the Scenes: Choreographer Travis D. Gatling

Ohio-based choreographer Travis D. Gatling spent two weeks this summer creating a new work co-commissioned by Ballet Theatre of Maryland...

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Unique Dance Collaboration “Sizzles” with Inspiration

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Jul 3, 20232 min read

Unique Dance Collaboration “Sizzles” with Inspiration

Ballet Theatre of Maryland, based in Annapolis, is the state’s preeminent professional ballet company, performing classic story ballets...

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Baltimore’s Young Dancers to Shine at Governor-Elect Wes Moore’s Inaugural Ball

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Jan 13, 20232 min read

Baltimore’s Young Dancers to Shine at Governor-Elect Wes Moore’s Inaugural Ball

Ten young dancers who train at Baltimore’s Morton Street Dance Center will perform a special dance on January 18 to celebrate the...

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Q&A with Costume Designer Jasmin Nessa Ali

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Nov 13, 20223 min read

Q&A with Costume Designer Jasmin Nessa Ali

For a choreographer creating a new work, costume design is an essential element for conveying meaning. A collaboration with...

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World Premiere: New Work "The Hill" Gets Real about Growing Older

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Oct 28, 20222 min read

World Premiere: New Work "The Hill" Gets Real about Growing Older

Before she created a single step for her new work The Hill, choreographer Misty Yackshaw called together a group of female dancers aged...

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Physician-Choreographer Brings Health Care Workers' Pandemic Realities to the Screen

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Apr 24, 20214 min read

Physician-Choreographer Brings Health Care Workers' Pandemic Realities to the Screen

DISSONANCE, a dance work for film that makes vivid the early pandemic experiences of health care workers.

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Mar 5, 20192 min read

STEPS, A Composition for a Painting

Baltimore’s Full Circle Dance Company partnered with Maryland Institute College of Art to present a free live performance of John Cage’s...

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