PROFILE OF THE MORTON STREET DANCE CENTER, INC.
Originally established in 1992, Morton Street Dance Center is one of Baltimore's best and most comprehensive dance schools. Morton Street's exceptional teaching staff offers exciting, age-appropriate, developmental insturction for professional level dancers and every member of the family age 3 to adult.
The school's youngest students study creative movement and pre-dance which offer a fun introduction to both ballet and modern. Older boys and girls receive technical training in numerous disciplines, including classical ballet, pointe, modern, tap, hip-hop and traditional African dance. We offer modern, ballet, tap and liturgical dance through regular classes or workshops for adults.
By audition, students may be invited to become part of one of our performing ensembles for students age 8 to 18. The Repertory ensembles perform frequently throughout the year in venues that include: Balitmore's citywide Artscape Festival; the Dorothy P. Stanley Dance Festival at Morgan State University; DanceBaltimore at the Morris Mechanic Theatre and the Hippodrome Theatre; Baltimore's Annual Preakness Parade; the African American Heritage Arts Festival; and in the summer of 2008, headlined the "Music City Arts Conference" in Nashville, TN.
Morton Street presents an immensely popular Annual Spring Concert for all of its dancers. In addition, the school offers fun-filled Summer Dance Camp/Workshop, Youth and Professional Summer Dance Intensives with renowned national and regional faculty, an especially sweet Tiny Tots Mini Camp, and tempting Dance Samplers throughout the year. Recent summer activities included a seven week Summer School in the Arts program, offered on behalf of the Morton Street Foundation, Inc. and sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. This was one of 25 programs in the U.S.
Morton Street is located in a lovely, convenient, state-of-the art facility which includes "sprung" dance floors. Morton Street prides itself on its professional, technical, and inspired instruction, designed to meet the needs of each of its students. Morton Street was voted Baltimore's Best Dance School, by the Maryland Small Business Association. Morton Street is a proud member of DanceBaltimore. Morton street is supported, in part, by the Morton Street Foundation, Inc. a 501(c)(3) corporation.
ABOUT FULL CIRCLE DANCE COMPANY
Full Circle Dance Company is a multiethnic professional ensemble that performs exciting choreography from a variety of modern dance traditions. Drawing on the diverse backgrounds of its dancers, the company works in a collaborative spirit to bring technically stunning and emotionally challenging dance to a wide audience. The company makes special efforts to collaborate with artists from other disciplines and to reach beyond traditional audiences for dance. In recent years, we have worked with professional writers, students, nursing home residents, expectant mothers, and others, incorporating input from the community into our choreography. Full Circle Dance Company has performed locally at the Hippodrome Theater hosted by Dance Baltimore, at Artscape, at Theatre Project, at the Baltimore Museum of Art Exhibit Expressions series, and by invitation in the Maryland Council of Dance Festival Concert. The company has also performed by invitation at 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. For more information about Full Circle Dance company please refer to www.fullcircledance.webs.com.