Spring Dance Concerts Bring Noted Performers
To Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in April

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will offer a richly varied program of dance works from noted performers in April.

Presented by the Campus’s Dance Department, the annual spring dance concert will take place on April 15 at 7 p.m., April 16 at 8 p.m., April 17 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and April 18 at 3 p.m. in the Campus’s Triangle Theater. Ticket prices are $10 for general admission; $5 for students with ID.

Merle Holloman, former principal with the Limon Dance Company, has reconstructed "The Unsung," choreographed by Jose Limon in 1970, originally with an all-male cast. In this version, there are seven women and one male dancer, all B.F.A. students at LIU and who will also take part in the "Sharing the Legacy Conference" at Hunter College on April 2.

The concert will also feature guest faculty artist Doug Elkins who has developed a new work in the post-modern style using both traditional and street dance styles; Nathan Trice, who will present a new creation; Colleen Thomas, who will reprise "Waiting for Ernesto," an original dance she created for Campus dance majors last year; and Kwame Ross, whose new piece is based on African dance forms.

Student choreography will also be shown. Senior Ernesto Mancebo has created a dynamic quintet that he set to music by Bjork while sophomore Orletta Copeland has created a solo for herself, in silence, with references to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Nicole Frye, a graduating senior, will perform her farewell concert this year.

On Sunday, April 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., the Dance Department will hold auditions for its fall 2004 B.F.A. program in the Dance Studio. On Wednesday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the department will hold its annual high school choreography conference in the Triangle Theater.

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 more than 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.