The third annual collaboration between Ballet Theatre of Maryland and Full Circle Dance Company, LINEAGE included a highly varied program of works from the ballet and modern dance traditions.  Featuring a cast of nearly 60 professional dancers and 16 community guest artists, this show honored mothers, mentors, and matriarchs during Women's History Month. 

Two of Maryland’s top professional dance companies—Ballet Theatre of Maryland and Full Circle Dance Company—will unite this spring in a performance that explores ideas of heritage and legacy, with special focus on the contributions of women. The show LINEAGE will be presented one night only, Thursday, March 12, 2026, at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts.

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

The absolute highlight of Full Circle Dance Company’s art-filled 25th Anniversary year was Rooted and Rising, held on November 9 at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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.

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

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.   

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

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