As we prepare for Full Circle Dance Company’s 25th anniversary performance Rooted and Rising, we are creating something deeply personal: a new collaborative work titled She Did That! This piece is more than choreography—it’s an act of remembrance, of honoring, and of storytelling. Inspired by our recent free community workshop, She Did That! is grounded in the stories of ancestors—mothers, grandmothers, mentors, and trailblazers—whose love and strength live on in those the

When Donna L. Jacobs founded Full Circle Dance Company in 2000, she was hoping to create professional performance and choreography opportunities for the creative young teachers at her Baltimore studio, the Morton Street Dance Center. The company's first performance included a prescient work about war, which premiered months before the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. That first concert also included two works by choreographer Travis Gatling, who would become an

Bright sun and a large, enthusiastic crowd greeted Full Circle Dance Company at our May 25 performance on the Main Stage at the revitalized Baltimore Artscape Festival.

Hazel, Baba Tone, Thelma, Mattie Lee, Elmaza, Stephania, Florence, Grandma Zette, Temple, Johnnie Mae, Rose Mary. These are just some of the foremothers whose powerful stories surfaced during Full Circle Dance Company's May 8 She Did That! Free Community Workshop.   

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Ten serious dance students aged 9-15 from two different schools will be featured in an experimental new work to be performed together by Bal

Hope B. Byers is recipient of a 2024 Howard County Arts Council IAM Creativity Grant, the largest award in the choreography category. She is

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

Morgan Sledge is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer with strong artistic and personal roots in the Baltimore area. An alum of the Morton..

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

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...

When the weather begins to feel chilly and the days get shorter, dancers around the world are hard at work preparing to deliver...

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

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

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

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

Full Circle Dance Company's new show HOME: Longing and Belonging, coming November 19-20 to Baltimore Theatre Project, will premiere When the

When choreographer Jennifer Seye created Vows in 2014, she was driven in part by turmoil among co-workers, family members, and American soci

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