Clare Byrne, Ted L. Levy and Other Noted Dancers to Perform
At Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, Nov. 20-21

Brooklyn, N.Y. - Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus will be the site of a dance extravaganza offering a richly varied program of works from traditional modern to post-modern styles.

Presented by the Campus's Dance Department as a showcase for its distinguished professional faculty, the seventh annual concert will take place on Thursday, November 20, and Friday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus's Triangle Theater.

Clare Byrne, fresh from a successful New York season at Dixon Place, will show a solo from her dance "Rend and Sew," performed by company member Janelle Barclay, a graduate of the Dance Department.

Ted L. Levy, performer, director, choreographer and teacher, will present tap dance. As a colleague of Savion Glover and the late Gregory Hines, Levy has an impressive show business background.

Carlos Orta, formerly a principal dancer with the Limon Dance Company, will present "Songs of the South," a dance for five in which he will dance with four members of his own company.

Kwame A. Ross, founder and artistic director of Prophecy Dance Company and former associate director of Urban Bush Women, will show an excerpt from "Ochun Suite."

Alenka Cizmesija will dance in a trio choreographed by Earl Mosley. Noel Hall will repeat a performance of "Keeper of the Cups," which premiered in the 2001 faculty concert, with choreography by Artis Smith. Deirdre Smith will perform in "Hydrogen and Oxygen," choreographed by Sasha Soreff, a former teacher in the Saturday High School Dance Workshop at LIU.

Dana Hash-Campbell, former principal with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and currently assistant professor at the Campus, will perform in Colleen Thomas and Bill Young's trio "Idle," and in Nathan Trice's solo "Wisdom." Thomas, who currently performs with Bill Young and Dancers and has collaborated with Young as co-choreographer, will also dance in "Trio" and in an untitled duet with Bill Young.

Tickets will be on sale beginning Monday, November 10, in the Dance Department. General admission is $10; for students with ID, $5. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (718) 488-1051.