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John Miller IV

Sep 18, 2014

Student Reflects on the Experience of Creating ‘Operation Breadbasket’

John Miller IV has been a company member of the Panoramic Dance Project student dance company for three years. For the Spring 2014 concert, students in the company worked to produce Operation Breadbasket, a mixed media modern dance honoring its namesake Civil Rights movement. Students compiled research and interviews to gain a historical understanding of the material, then applied their…

Sep 17, 2014

I Found Family in Dance

The finale move sent me to oblivion. The stage light dims and I hear nothing – not even the growing volume of the applause sounding from the audience. All I could hear was the exhaustion resonating from our breaths, synchronized as if we were all breathing from the same lung. For seconds we remained still, baiting…
NCSU Dance Company

Mar 11, 2014

‘From left:’ earns national recognition at American College Dance Festival Association

Fourteen NCSU Dance Company members and directors Robin Harris and Tara Z. Mullins attended the American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA) Mid-Atlantic Conference at George Mason University March 8-12, 2014. The company performed two works for adjudication: From left: by director Robin Harris and Debate by students Katy Lund and Jessica Mattie. Robin Harris’ From…

Sep 15, 2013

Students Bring Entrepreneurial Energy to the Arts

by Kate Dobbs Ariail This kind of thing may be common among technogeeks, but it’s not so common in the arts. Dr. Gary Beckman and his students in the NC State Arts Entrepreneurship Minor are changing that. The idea of wedding entrepreneurship with the arts is a young one, but as old arts funding models collapse…