Aspiring and Professional Dancers to Perform at
Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus This Spring
-Include works by GeraldCaselDance, HunterDance and Alexandra Beller

Brooklyn, N.Y. - The Dance Department at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will showcase talent from its own repertoire alongside highly esteemed dance companies, in concerts from February to April, at the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts.

The Kumble Theater is located at the Brooklyn Campus in downtown Brooklyn, on the corner of Dekalb and Flatbush avenues.

Friday, February 6, and Thursday, March 5, 4 p.m., H109
RAWorkshop
Informal showing of student dance works-in-progress. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, February 18, noon, Kumble Theater
GERALDCASELDANCE
Modern company creates dances that ask questions about human beings – who they are, what they do and how their actions affect the world in which they live – in a collaboration between dance, music, costume design and technology. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, March 11, noon, Kumble Theater
Alexandra Beller/Dances
An ensemble of highly skilled performers working on the edge between dance and theater. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009, noon, Kumble Theater
HUNTERDance Theater
Whitney V. Hunter founded HUNTERDance Theater in 2000. It is the resident modern dance company at The Nest (PA), focusing on technique, composition, and repertory. Free and open to the public.

Friday, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 25, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday, April 26, 3 p.m., Kumble Theater
Dance Department Spring Concert
Dance majors perform an exciting program of modern dance works by guest artists Nathan Trice and Alexandra Beller, and a restaging of a historic dance work by master choreographer Laura Dean. Tickets: $15 general admission/$10 students and seniors with ID.

"Afternoons at LIU" is a series of free concerts, supported by grants from Target, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Provost’s Office and in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC). For more information, call (718) 488-3355.

Media Contact: (718) 488-1015

Posted: February 4, 2009