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UNCSA School of Dance partners with Dance Theatre of Harlem

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Dance has entered into a multi-year partnership with the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH). 

The collaboration with the acclaimed New York City company means that UNCSA student dancers will be given scholarship opportunities to train with DTH artists, while the Harlem-based students will visit the Winston-Salem campus and take part in educational opportunities and performances throughout North Carolina.

UNCSA School of Dance Dean Endalyn Outlaw is an alum and former director of Dance Theatre of Harlem.

She says proper education and training play key roles in the lives of dancers.

"Being able to represent something larger than yourself, and being able to articulate the changes that you want to see in the world, and therefore really being a true advocate for the arts and for our humanity," says Outlaw. 

The partnership will be inaugurated with the Spring Dance Program at the High Point Theatre this weekend. The performances will include the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s iconic “Firebird,” along with Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and several premieres by UNSCA alumni.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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