Community involvement
The department shares the time of students, faculty and guest artists with other community organizations. Artists have reached out to area schools, minority groups and community centers including:
- Chesterfield School of Ballet
- Collegiate School
- Crestview Elementary School
- Ezibu Muntu African Dance Company
- Fan Free Clinic
- George Wythe High School
- Ground Zero Dance Company
- Henrico County Public Schools Center for the Arts
- Mosby Middle School
- Richmond Ballet
- Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth
- Richmond Parks and Recreation Dance Program at Pine Camp
- Richmond Performing Arts Collective
- Swift Creek Academy of the Performing Arts
- The Village Dance Studio
- Virginia State University
- William Byrd Community Center
Guest artists presenting master classes and/or lecture-demonstrations to the community have included the following:
- Ronald K. Brown/Evidence
- Carmen DeLavallade
- David Dorfman
- Rennie Harris Pure/Movement
- Bela Lewitzky
- Carla Maxwell
- Donald McKayle
- Bebe Miller
- Tere O'Connor
- Gus Solomons, Jr.
- Clay Taliaferro
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
Department of Dance and Choreography
dance@vcu.edu
Date Last Modified: 9/8/2008