Faculty Artists

Charlotte Adams
Charlotte is a director of Dancers In Company and on the UI Dance Faculty.  She offers dance workshops and lecture-demonstration on the life of a performing artist as related to culture and diversity.  She received dual masters degrees from the University of Arizona and founded Tenth Street Danceworks, a professional modern dance company in Tuscon, Arizona.  The company has performed her choreography throughout the southwest and in Texas, Nebraska, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and southern France.

Armando Duarte
UI Dance faculty Armando Duarte combines the rich music, dance and literary traditions of Brazil and the United States into Latin dance workshops and lecture-demonstrations. Mr. Duarte also directs unique video lectures about the Rain Forest, or Carnival(s) in Brazil. Mr. Duarte taught at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and was co-founder and company member of the Cisne Negro Dance Company in Sao Paulo for fourteen years.

Dance Ensembles

Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble (ACDDE)
The Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble is a unique group of dancers and percussionists performing the folkloric music and dance of Cuba. Members of the group have traveled to Cuba to learn the music and dance of this rich island culture. This colorful presentation includes drumming, song, and dance, and can enhance the study of Africa and Cuba, and the relationship between dance and music in cultural traditions.

Dancers In Company (DIC)
Directed by UI Dance Faculty Deanna Carter and Jennifer Kayle, Dancers In Company is the touring repertory dance company of the Department of Dance. The company of twelve dancers, undergraduates and graduate students, tours throughout Iowa and the Midwest from March to June each year performing live concerts and lecture demonstrations for audiences of all ages.

Duarte Dance Works (DDW)
Duarte Dance Works is a professional contemporary dance company performing in both traditional and non-traditional venues. DDW collaborates with multiple artists and organizations. In addition to their educational programs, DDW intends to serve the communities by providing public performances of various forms of contemporary dance.

Artists

Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith is the Director of the University of Iowa’s Dance Forum, she offers a Classical Ballet Lecture/Demonstration. Students of the youth Ballet present an educational and entertaining history of Ballet. From its beginning in the royal courts of Italy to the present, ballet is one art form that has stood the test time. Youth Ballet students will present a short barre demonstrating the core foundation of ballet and then perform excerpts from classics, appropriate for all ages.

Johanna Kirk
Johanna Kirk offers community yoga classes. She is a professional dancer and she brings a very dancerly, joyous, and creative approach to her yoga classes. She is a Kripalu trained teacher and in the process of receiving her Anusara certification.