Bill Young & Dancers Will Sway Audiences on March 12
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. – A dance company noted for its ability to transcend cultural boundaries, Bill Young & Dancers will perform at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus on Wednesday, March 12.

The performance will take place at noon in the Campus’s Triangle Theater, as part of the Dance Department’s "Afternoons at LIU" concert series. It is free and open to the public.

A native of Durham, N.C., Bill Young moved to New York to form his company in 1983. A 1997 Guggenheim Fellow, he has taught at universities throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

His company’s dancing has been described as "rich and full and beautifully designed." With a repertoire of more than 40 works, Bill Young & Dancers has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, and the Artslink, the Mary Duke Biddle, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore, the Harkness and the Greenwall Foundations.

Among the company is noted dancer Colleen Thomas of Long Island University, who has collaborated with Young on several recent company works and on guest residencies around the world. The company has danced to enthusiastic audiences in Brazil, Hong Kong, Estonia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Russia, Peru and Venezuela.

The Dance Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus developed its successful "Afternoons at LIU" series of noontime dance concerts more than a decade ago to make dance artists accessible to students on campus. Among the noted companies who have performed over the years are the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, Paul Taylor II Co., Sean Curran Co. and Avila/Weeks Dance. The Dance Department offers a B.F.A. in Dance, with concentrations in performance and choreography.

The program is sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (718) 488-1051.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.