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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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She Did That! Honoring the Women Who Shaped Us
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

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Jun 135 min read


Ten Student Dancers to Join Two Professional Companies in Experimental Work on February 2
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

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Jan 272 min read


Ground and Sky: An Ephemeral Premiere Explores Forces that Bind and Free Us
On February 2, 2025, an audience at the Gordon Center for the Performing Arts will witness the premiere of an extraordinary collaborative wo

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Jan 24 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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Nov 18, 20242 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 16, 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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Oct 1, 20243 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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Jul 22, 20242 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 29, 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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Oct 4, 20232 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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Jul 15, 20233 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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Jul 3, 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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Jan 13, 20232 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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Nov 13, 20223 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 28, 20222 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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Apr 24, 20214 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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Mar 5, 20192 min read
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