Three Funny Ladies Dance with Humor and Grace
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. — In a delightful combo of solo dance humor, "3 Funny Ladies: Clare Byrne, Claire Porter and Ara Fitzgerald" will perform at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

The event will take place on Wednesday, March 10 at noon in the Campus’s Triangle Theater, as part of the Dance Department’s free "Afternoons at LIU" concert series.

Byrne will spin the tale of a character named "Wet Blue," a lonely tipsy tramp who embodies a soul’s hopes and dreams, with wit and vulnerability. She is the artistic director of Clare Byrne Dance, and her work has been seen at Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, The New York International Fringe Festival, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought Series and Symphony Space, among others. Byrne performed with nicholasleichterdance for 11 years and now is in the video and animation works of Vickie Mendoza and Amy Larimer.

Porter will perform "Portables," a series of comedic movement monologues that include lost keys, lost art, a lost woman, raising money and the latest in mulch fashion. Porter was the hostess-comedienne for the Minnesota Composers Forum’s New Music Concert. She has received many choreography fellowships, and her work has been produced at the Dance Theater Workshop, the Knitting Factory, Jacob’s Pillow and the Lucille Ball Festival of Comedy.

Fitzgerald will present "The Adventures of the Ever-Fragmented Woman," a collection of solos that chronicle an every-woman’s mid-life vaudeville. She was a member of The Workgroup, an improvisational dance company, and The Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble. An associate director of dance and theatre at Manhattanville College, she has choreographed for Off-Broadway and Broadway plays and for Trinity Square Repertory and Hartford Stage Company.

The Dance Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus developed its "Afternoons at LIU" series of dance concerts more than a decade ago to make dance artists accessible to students and the public. The department offers a B.F.A. in Dance, with concentrations in performance and choreography. For more information, call Noel Hall at (718) 488-1051.

Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus opened in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. More than 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the University’s three residential and three regional compuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus.