Award-Winning Choreographer Explores Reconstruction
Hope B. Byers is recipient of a 2024 Howard County Arts Council IAM Creativity Grant, the largest award in the choreography category. She is
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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.
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Oct 173 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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Oct 73 min read
Baltimore Choreographer “Puts on the Sleeves of Love”
Morgan Sledge is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer with strong artistic and personal roots in the Baltimore area. An alum of the Morton..
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Oct 13 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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Aug 165 min read
Full Circle Dance Company’s 2024-25 “Season of Power”
Baltimore’s Full Circle Dance Company is known for digging deeply into a single theme each year, bringing together diverse choreographers to
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Aug 132 min read
Celebrating Artistic Excellence: Full Circle Dance Company’s IAM Creativity Grant Awardees for 2024
Full Circle Dance Company is thrilled to announce that two of our incredible artists, Hope B. Byers and Misty Yackshaw, have been honored as
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Jan 221 min read
Mini-Documentary Captures the Spirit of Full Circle
We are amazed at how this brief documentary about Full Circle captures the way we feel when we dance together. It's a behind-the-scenes...
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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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Nov 13, 20232 min read
Sugar Plum Season is Back!
When the weather begins to feel chilly and the days get shorter, dancers around the world are hard at work preparing to deliver...
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Nov 6, 20232 min read
And Still, We Dream: Choreographer Finds Inspiration in the Work of a Maryland Literary Treasure
Choreographer Finds Inspiration in the Work of a Maryland Literary Treasure Full Circle Dance Company, now celebrating its 23rd year in
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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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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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Feb 17, 20232 min read
Students Explore Black History Through Words and Movement
When Full Circle Dance Company Artistic Director Donna Jacobs called for volunteers from an audience of 400 students at McDonogh School...
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Jan 31, 20234 min read
Maryland Artists to Shine in February 16th Celebration of Black Dance at the Gordon Center
The Gordon Center for Performing Arts, in partnership with the Baltimore Black Dance Collective, will host CELEBRATION: Uplifting and...
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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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Nov 21, 20223 min read
Nutcracker Time! Diverse Cast Savors the Magic of a Holiday Classic
For ballet dancers around the world, Nutcracker season brings waves of nostalgia. Dancers literally grow up in "The Nutcracker,"...
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Oct 28, 20222 min read
World Premiere: New Work Focuses on HBCU Homecoming Traditions
Full Circle Dance Company's new show HOME: Longing and Belonging, coming November 19-20 to Baltimore Theatre Project, will premiere When the
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Oct 28, 20222 min read
Vows: A Work about Marriage Gains New Resonance
When choreographer Jennifer Seye created Vows in 2014, she was driven in part by turmoil among co-workers, family members, and American soci
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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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Oct 11, 20222 min read
A Golden Day of Open Air Dancing in Baltimore
On October 10, Full Circle was blessed with glorious weather for Belong: A Free Community Performance in beautiful Eager Park in East...
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