North Carolina Dance Theatre Hosting
Fellowship N’ Movement Shared Performance

Performance features NC Dance Theatre and local dance ministries

Friday, April 23, 7 p.m.
 Bette Rae Thomas Recreation Center 

Charlotte, N.C. - For the fourth year, North Carolina Dance Theatre is leading a liturgical dance collaboration with area churches. The collaboration, previously known as Dance Friendships, has been renamed Fellowship N’ Movement and is made possible through a Front Porch Grant. “This collaboration has had great impact both on the dance ministries and on NC Dance Theatre,” said April Berry, Dance Theatre director of education and outreach. “This project has afforded wonderful opportunities for dialogue, dance, and fellowship, and lives have been transformed.”    

In addition to first year partner Friendship Missionary Baptist Church and second year partner New Birth Charlotte in Huntersville, liturgical dance ensembles from Resurrection and Christ Lutheran Churches, New St. John Missionary Baptist Church and members from Hickory Grove Baptist Church’s Latino Campus are participating this year.

Fellowship N’ Movement project activities began this past December with planning meetings between liturgical dance coordinators and the NC Dance Theatre education staff. Dance workshops were conducted throughout the winter and early spring for ministry participants and NC Dance Theatre apprentices. NC Dance Theatre Company member Mary Ellen Beaudreau, dancers from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, hip-hop artists from Charlotte and Atlanta, and a former dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, led workshops for adults and youth.

Performance

The Fellowship N’ Movement collaboration culminates in a shared performance program at the Bette Rae Thomas Recreation Center on Friday, April 23, 2010, at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public, each of the liturgical ensembles, NC Dance Theatre and NC Dance Theatre 2 are performing. Dance Theatre Company member Mary Ellen Beaudreau is choreographing a dance work incorporating dance ministry members and coordinators, and NC Dance Theatre apprentices.

Fellowship N’ Movement Performance Details  

Dates:

Friday, April 23, 2010, 7 p.m.

Location:

Bette Rae Thomas Recreation Center, 2921 Tuckaseegee Road, Charlotte, N.C.

Cost:

Attendance is free

Information:

For more information please call 704.372.0101 x2767 or visit ncdance.org

North Carolina Dance Theatre has received funding from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation through its Front Porch Grants program, which is managed by the Community Building Initiative. The program is an effort to build informal social capital within our community.