The North Carolina Dance Festival is a division of Dance Project, Inc., a non-profit organization under the direction of Jan Van Dyke, with three activities: a statewide dance festival, a dance school and a professional dance company.

A   n   n   o   u   n   c   e   m   e   n   t   s Season Calendar coming soon! Posted: Monday May 13, 2013 2:03 pm We're in the process of updating our season calendar for the 2013-14 NCDF! Here is the season schedule: Raleigh--September 13-14 Boone--October 25-26) Greensboro--November 1-2 Charlotte--January 24-25 Wilmington--February 7-9 Look for more information about the venues, tickets, and artists soon! Announcing NCDF 2013-14 Touring Artists! Posted: Wednesday April 3, 2013 12:31 pm The NC Dance Festival (NCDF) is pleased to announce its roster of 2013-2014 Touring Artists! Each season, 8 NC-based choreographers are chosen in a blind adjudication process to participate in the annual NCDF statewide tour. The following artists/companies have been chosen for the upcoming season, which begins September 2013: Renay Aumiller/Renay Aumiller Dances (Durham) ShaLeigh Comerford/ShaLeigh Dance Works (Durham) Emily Daughtridge (Boone) Karola Luttringhaus/Alban Elved Dance Company (Wilmington) Jen Guy Metcalf/TERRANOVA Dance Theatre (Greensboro) Bridget Morris/Echo Contemporary Dance Company (Charlotte) Eleanor Smith (Raleigh) Ronald West/BLACK IRISH (Raleigh) These artists will perform at each of the five NCDF sites: Raleigh (September 13-14), Boone (October 25-26), Greensboro (November 1-2), Charlotte (January 24-25), and Wilmington (TBA). Local artists from each city will perform alongside the touring choreographers. Outreach activities will bring these choreographers into local schools and community centers to teach and perform in association with each Festival weekend. Each site selects their own local artists to perform during their Festival weekend. For the Greensboro performance, the dances on tour will be joined by choreography by Christina Tsoules Soriano, Helen Simoneau, and our Audience Choice Show winner, Marcus White! We are thrilled to have some familiar faces and some new choreographers on the tour this year! As we approach the Festival season, meet the choreographers and go behind the scenes of the NCDF on the blog. More info and performance details will be coming soon to the website, as well! NCDF at ADF! Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2013 10:36 am We are excited to announce that the NC Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival will join forces to promote statewide dance during the ADF Summer season! Selected by a panel of nationally recognized choreographers including Camille A. Brown, David Dorfman, and Faye Driscoll, four works were chosen from among the top performances on the NCDF tour in the last 10 years. John Gamble, Natalie Marrone, Cara Hagan, and Lindsey Kelley and Mindy Upin will make their ADF main stage debuts as we celebrate the work being created here at home. Please join us on June 19 in Reynolds Industries Theater on the Duke University campus in Durham to celebrate statewide dance! More details here: http://www.americandancefestival.org