BRENDA DANIELS

Brenda Daniels holds the Betsy Friday Distinguished Professorship in Contemporary Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She joined the faculty at UNCSA in 1995, became the Assistant Dean for Contemporary Dance in 2004, and the Interim Dean in 2011. She received the UNCSA Teaching Excellence Award in 1999 and again in 2008. Ms. Daniels is also on the summer faculty of the American Dance Festival. She was artistic director of her own company, Brenda Daniels Dance Company, from 1985-1995. The company presented annual seasons in New York, and toured in the United States and Europe. Ms. Daniels is a recipient of choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her choreography has been commissioned by Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, St. Mark’s Church, and theatres throughout Germany and the Netherlands.  Performance credits include Ton Simons and Dancers, Mel Wong, Ellen Cornfield, Shelley Lee, Douglas Dunn, William Douglas, Bill Young, and the Palindrome Dance Company. Teaching credits include the Merce Cunningham Studio (1985-1995), Purchase College, Hollins University, UNC-Greensboro, Wake Forest University, Harvard Summer Dance Center, Cornish College, Texas Christian University, Stephens College, Sam Houston State University, Connecticut College, California State University at Long Beach, Vassar, Brigham Young, and the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Brenda Daniels has earned a B.F.A. in Dance from Purchase College and an M.F.A. in Dance from Hollins University.

“Brenda Daniels / Modern mastery at University of North Carolina School of the Arts,” in “Architects of the Body and Soul / Teaching Modern Dance in College”
Dance Teacher, September 2010 issue
Reprinted with permission from Dance Teacher.