ASC Culture Blocks
Circus & Dance Workshop
​Sep 13 ​
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1pm - 3:30pm
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Tickets: FREE!
Ages 6 - 17​
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Experience the Artistry, Athleticism, and Legacy of Movement Across Time
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Step into an unforgettable live experience that brings the magic and evolution of dance and circus arts to life!
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Join Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center for a high-energy, 50-minute performance that fuses history, culture, and breathtaking skill. Watch as four to five professional performing artists
take you on a journey through time.
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Location: Berewick Recreation Center
Located in Berewick Elementary School
5910 Dixie River Rd., Charlotte, NC 28278
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This event is sponsored by Culture Blocks, a community partnership funded by Mecklenburg County.
Caroline Calouche (She/her) grew up in Gastonia dancing at Gaston Dance Theatre and then earned two BFA degrees in Ballet and Modern Dance at Texas Christian University. She has performed with Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, Contemporary Ballet Dallas and then lived in Rome, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; and Salzburg, Austria performing and choreographing. She is a graduate of the post-graduate International Choreographic Exchange program at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria. She began her circus training in aerial dance in 2008 at the age of 27, when she produced an Aerial Dance Concert as part of the Charlotte Dance Festival, which she founded and directed from 2007 - 2022. Her first aerial dance and circus discipline was rope & harness and aerial silks, which she now has expanded to lyra/aerial hoop, duo trapeze, duo lyra, Spanish web, partner acrobatics and German Wheel. She has teaching certifications in Nimble Arts Aerial Silks and Trapeze and German Wheel 1 from the U.S. Wheel Gymnastics.
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In 2006 Caroline established the non-profit professional dance and circus performing company, Caroline Calouche & Co., and added the school to the organization in 2017 called the Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center. She is a founding board member of the Dance Artist Alliance CLT.
Mikayla Prushik (She/her) grew up in New York and participated in both gymnastics and dance. She first became involved with aerial circus when she and her sister were in a professional circus performance at 11. Currently, Mikayla is a junior at Florida State University studying psychology and criminology and is a part of the FSU Flying High Circus, where she performed on the Spanish Web in the Spring 2023 and Spring 2024 shows.
Nicole Muse-Dennis (She/Her) is originally from Queens, New York where she began dancing at the age of 3. Nicole has studied tap, jazz, ballet, modern/contemporary, pointe, and African forms of dance. Nicole’s teaching and choreography first began as a teenager where she was given the opportunity to choreograph & instruct a class of her peers at her high school. Nicole continued this into college where she was the principal dancer and choreographer for the Association of Rhythmic Talent on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. Nicole also served as the assistant to the director of The Artistic Studio in Winston-Salem, NC. She taught for the Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC. Nicole’s resume is full of guest teaching tenures at studios, schools, churches, and workshops. Her performance experience includes theatrical dance performances including being cast as Mary in the National Black Repertory Theater’s production of the Black Nativity and Chris Thompson and the Cultural Ensemble.
Nicole is the mother of two daughters. She is a licensed teacher for the State of North Carolina. Her passion is in helping dancers reach new heights by actualizing the beauty and power that they have in themselves.
Matthew Sanchez (He/Him) A Bboy from the Bronx NY that now resides in Charlotte NC. His classes are made to get you moving, build confidence, pass history, and to give students a new form of expression. He's been breaking since 2009 when he found his first community of dancers. He had rocked the floor before but it wasn’t until he met his first mentor that he learned the culture behind the dance. As he got older, he went on to compete, perform, and share the floor with amazing dancers across the country and even across the globe. In his journey, he found that sharing my love for the dance was just as exciting as the days when he first learned. So now his goal is to share that same feeling with the future bboys and bgirls of the world.