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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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Jan 24 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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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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Oct 22, 20243 min read
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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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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Oct 7, 20243 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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Aug 13, 20242 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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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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Apr 17, 20241 min read
Full Circle Accepts 2024 Diversity in Arts Grant
Thank you, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott and United Way of Central Maryland! Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs accepted Full Circle Dance
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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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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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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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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 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 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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Oct 28, 20222 min read
From Baltimore to NYC, Cultivating Diversity in Ballet
We are thrilled for Full Circle Dance Company Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs, who has been selected as a 2022-2023 School of American...
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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 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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Sep 19, 20221 min read
BELONG: A Free Community Performance in Beautiful Baltimore
Join Full Circle Dance Company for some powerful dancing under October skies in beautiful Eager Park. This family-friendly performance is...
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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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