Full Circle Dance Company
is a multiethnic professional ensemble that performs exciting choreography from a variety of modern dance traditions. Based in Baltimore, MD, the company draws on the diverse backgrounds of its dancers and works in a collaborative spirit to bring technically stunning and emotionally challenging dance to a wide audience.
Founded in 2000, the company makes special efforts to collaborate with artists from other disciplines and to reach beyond traditional audiences for dance. In previous years, the company has worked with professional writers, students, nursing home residents, expectant mothers, and others, incorporating input from the community into its choreography.
Full Circle has built a strong body of work that tackles challenging thematic topics. Marking the company’s 10th anniversary year, Full Circle set out to challenge its audience to think in new ways about water’s place in our world. Debuting in February 2010 AQUEOUS: Awakening Our Connections to Water explored water’s impact on our lives, from the devastation of its absence to the solace it can bring to one’s soul. In 2009, Full Circle produced The Unconscious: Dreams and Fears, an intensive choreographic crucible which examined diverse aspects of the mind and involved members of the community to participate the artistic journey.Sacred Body was created in 2008 to encourage discussion regarding spirituality and religion–how and why people pray, religion as a source of conflict within our families and across communities, and how faith can provide support for the suffering am unite as well as divide. And in 2006, Full Circle embarked on a yearlong exploration of race and discrimination entitled Borders Uncrossed. This challenging project brought together local and visiting choreographers, dancers, and non-dancers for an honest investigation of the entrenched ideas that affect our perceptions of each other.
Full Circle Dance Company has performed locally at the Lyric Opera House, Hippodrome Theater hosted by Dance Baltimore, at Artscape, at Theatre Project, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and by invitation in the Maryland Council of Dance Festival Concert. The company has also performed by invitation at the Breaking Ground Dance Festival in Tempe, Arizona, the Music City Arts Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and the Broadway Dance Center’s Choreographers’ Performance Outlet in New York.
Full Circle Dance Company is in residence at the Morton Street Dance Center. The important partnership between school and company creates opportunities for professional dancers to share their knowledge with young dancers in training.
