FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2004
Contact: Michael Corby
904.632.3310

Florida Community College presents 2004 Spring Dance Concert April 16, 17

What:	Florida Community College at Jacksonville Department of Dance 2004 Spring Dance Concert
When:	April 16, 17 at 8 p.m.
Cost:	General admission: $8 Student admission: $5
Where:	Florida Community College South Campus 11901 Beach Blvd. Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, Main Stage
Details:	(Commentary by Dance Professor Rosemary Fletcher) This evening of dance showcases both local and guest artists. The choreography includes a spectrum of dance styles, from contemporary ballet, classical and edgy modern to enticing ballroom. James Morrow, artistic director of the Chicago-based company, Instruments of Movement, will perform Undertow, and Right as Rain, with dancers from the FCCJ Repertory Company. Morrow’s unique fusion of modern, hip-hop, and African dance has recently won him the Chicago Critic’s Choice award. University of Florida’s MOD Project will perform the Minneapolis-based dance company Shapiro and Smith’s, Rhapsody. Shapiro & Smith Dance is known for its strong, sharp-edged and daring theatricality. Shapiro & Smith’s works demonstrate how every-day life situations become art. Rhapsody is a spectacle of riveting bodies accented by sinuous physicality. Los Angeles choreographers Mike Esperanza, and Arturo Fernandez, ballet master for San Francisco’s Lines Ballet will present IV and Between Hawk and Buzzard. Esperanza’s IV, set on dancers from California Polytechnic State University, is a display of dynamic athleticism. Between Hawk and Buzzard, performed by FCCJ dancers, takes the audience on a journey into the ghostly fantastical state of being that is reminiscent only in the world of surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Local ballroom dance artist/choreographer, Sarwat Kaluby will present a ballroom dance piece to spice and heat up the stage. Performed by the dancers from FCCJ this number is sure to please any ballroom aficionado! Breaking Tides, a new work by Australian born choreographer Kelly Drummond, is a thought provoking and profound choreographic exploration of “supporting relationships.” For reservations and information call 904.646.2222.