Find out all about WVDC’s 2019-20 season including new works and
tour stats in our latest annual report.
“The dance of life” – Via Register Herald
“Donald Laney is grateful to dance in West Virginia, a state where his talents carry him all the way. For the past 21 years, the 43-year-old dancer has been a member of West Virginia Dance Company, the state’s first and only professional touring dance company, founded by Toneta Akers-Toler in 1977.” Read More…
Media Coverage
Feb. 2017 – WV Dance Co. Review by WVU Dance professor and former Paul Taylor Company dancer Maureen Mansfield Kaddar – Click to read
West Virginia Dance Company was featured on the cover of Spotlight West Virginia Magazine (Fall 2015). You can check out the article here on page 16.
West Virginia Dance Company performing at the Dancing with the Stars event in Beckley, WV. (September, 2015)
“Canadian dancer educates local youth” – Via Register Herald
“When 23-year-old dancer Brittney Fitzgerald was a little girl in Canada, she didn’t know that her love of dance would one day bring her to Beckley or that she’d teach West Virginia children about the history of the coal camp life.” Read More…
“Painting event in Beckley to benefit WV Dance Company” – Via Register Herald
“WV Dance Company sets workshops, performance” – Via Register Herald
“Dance company to premiere ‘A Coal History’ to audiences” – Via Register Herald
