{"id":50145,"date":"2016-01-06T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/delia-neil\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:55:49","slug":"delia-neil","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/delia-neil\/","title":{"rendered":"Delia Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delia Neil, Associate Professor, holds a B.A. degree in Dance from Butler University and an MFA in Dance from UNC Greensboro. Neil is a Professional Choreographer and Master Teacher of Ballet and a certified Pilates Mat Instructor. She was a finalist for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence at UNC&nbsp;Charlotte in 2003. Her choreography includes works for the concert stage, musical theatre and dramatic theatre productions, collaborative works with visual artists as well as settings of classical ballet repertoire. Neil\u2019s choreography has been supported through project grants by The Arts and Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, The North Carolina Arts Council, and by the Faculty Research Grant Program of UNC&nbsp;Charlotte. In 1996, Neil was awarded a Choreographic Fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Council. In the Fall of 2006, she was awarded a Reassignment of Duties Grant from UNC&nbsp;Charlotte\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences to serve as the Resident Choreographer for The Children\u2019s Theatre of Charlotte, the nationally acclaimed and third-largest Children\u2019s Theatre in the country. Her collaboration with The Children\u2019s Theatre of Charlotte spans over 16 years. She has collaborated on the acclaimed productions of&nbsp;<em>The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Go, Dog, Go!<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Shakespeare Stealer,<\/em>&nbsp;to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neil\u2019s work on \u201cmovement for the dramatic text\u201d has been presented at national theatre conferences as well as conferences on Shakespeare. At Randolph College in Lynchburg Virginia, Neil is a faculty member of the Visiting Artist program. Each year she choreographs work for the Annual Dance Concert and teaches ballet classes. In New York City, she studied with the acclaimed ballet teacher, Gabriella Taub-Darvash, and taught at Ballet Hispanico and Hunter College. As a professional dancer, she danced with the Baltimore Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet and toured nationally as a freelance artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neil has choreographed four works for presentation at the North Carolina Museum of Art.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a02019, she took students to Raleigh to perform her piece,\u00a0<em>Frida\u2019s Faces<\/em>, in conjunction\u00a0with the NCMA\u2019s exhibition of works by Frida Kahlo.\u00a0In April 2021, six\u00a0UNC Charlotte dance students performed Neil\u2019s,\u00a0<em>An Homage to Ancient Egypt,<\/em>\u00a0choreographed to accompany the museum\u2019s exhibition,\u00a0<em>Golden Mummies of Egypt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>More\u00a0recent are\u00a0a\u00a0project in response to NCMA\u2019s exhibition of the work of Art Nouveau visionary,\u00a0Alphonse Mucha,\u00a0in December\u00a02021, a work in conjunction with the NCMA&#8217;s exhibition of works from the Phillips Collection in 2022\u00a0(with repeated performances in Charlotte at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art), and <em>Dutch Art in a Global Age<\/em> in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delia Neil, Associate Professor, holds a B.A. degree in Dance from Butler University and an MFA in Dance from UNC Greensboro. 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