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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


A Quarter Century of Creative Adventures
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

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Jun 93 min read


Sun, Energy, Artscape!
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.

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May 271 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


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 7, 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


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 16, 20245 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


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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Apr 17, 20241 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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Jan 22, 20241 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


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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Nov 6, 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


Full Circle Dance Company Fall 2023 Season
It's our 23rd year creating dance that matters in Baltimore, and we are thrilled to announce a new project full of energy and ideas: "And...

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Aug 2, 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 16, 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


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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Feb 17, 20232 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 31, 20234 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
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