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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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A Homegrown Sugarplum Takes the Stage
Baltimore native Alicia Williams will step into the spotlight in the principal role of Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker, presented December 6 and 7 at Chesapeake Center for the Arts. An alum of Baltimore School for the Arts and Coppin State University, Williams is well known in Baltimore's dance scene for her powerful, emotional dancing with Full Circle Dance Company, one of the city's most visible modern dance ensembles. Her choreography was recently featured in the 2025 Ba

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Nov 25, 20252 min read


18 Guest Artists Join Full Circle to Bring Ancestral Stories to Life
Full Circle Dance Company welcomed 18 guest artists of varied ages and backgrounds to the studio on October 23 to contribute to a powerful new work entitled She Did That!, which honors the diverse stories of real female ancestors. The new work will premiere November 9 as part of Rooted and Rising at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Oct 28, 20251 min read


25 years of dance. One beautiful city.
For 25 years, Full Circle Dance Company has been creating powerful, thought-provoking dance right here in Baltimore. This city has always been more than our backdrop — it’s been our partner, our inspiration, and our stage.

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Aug 27, 20252 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 9, 20253 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 2, 20254 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


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 22, 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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Oct 7, 20243 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


To Dance and to Dream: A FREE Workshop
The 2023 Fall season begins with a free August 24 workshop "To Dance and to Dream." Led by Full Circle Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs,...

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Aug 2, 20231 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


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


Nutcracker Time! Diverse Cast Savors the Magic of a Holiday Classic
For ballet dancers around the world, Nutcracker season brings waves of nostalgia. Dancers literally grow up in "The Nutcracker,"...

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Nov 21, 20223 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 28, 20222 min read


Vows: A Work about Marriage Gains New Resonance
When choreographer Jennifer Seye created Vows in 2014, she was driven in part by turmoil among co-workers, family members, and American soci

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Oct 28, 20222 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


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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Oct 11, 20222 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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Sep 19, 20221 min read


Baltimore’s Full Circle Dance Company Presents HOME: Longing and Belonging
Full Circle Dance Company, Baltimore City’s most visible and established professional dance ensemble, will present an original...

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Sep 5, 20222 min read
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