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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 Dream Decades in the Making: Morton Street Dance Center Finds Its Forever Home
Baltimore's Full Circle Dance Company, a professional ensemble of 20 dancers with deep roots in the city, will soon have a beautiful new home. Full Circle is the professional company in residence at The Morton Street Dance Center, which has trained thousands of dancers in Baltimore across 35 years. Both Morton Street and Full Circle will move in September 2026 to a new facility featuring 4 professionally appointed dance studios as well as other creative spaces.

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Jul 274 min read


LINEAGE Immersed Us in Color, Beauty, and Community
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.

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Mar 162 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


She Did That! Free Community Workshop Generates Raw Material for New Work
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.

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May 13, 20252 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


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


Sugar Plum Season is Back!
When the weather begins to feel chilly and the days get shorter, dancers around the world are hard at work preparing to deliver...

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Nov 13, 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


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
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