Dancer Roxane D’Orleans Juste Will Soar on April 7
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Roxane D’Orleans Juste, associate artistic director of the Jose Limon Dance Company, will perform in a solo concert of eclectic modern dance classics at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

The event will take place on Wednesday, April 7 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.

Born in Montreal, Canada, Juste graduated from the National Ballet School’s Teacher Training Program in Toronto and became an associate member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in London, England. She moved to New York in 1981 and began her professional performing career as a member of the Eleo Pomare Dance Company. In 1983, she joined the Jose Limon Dance Company and continues to perform leading roles in Limon’s masterworks, "The Moor’s Pavane," "There is a Time," and "Missa Brevis," as well as the works of Doris Humphrey, Jiri Kylian, Jean Cebron, Donald McKayle, Susanne Linke, and Anthony Tudor. She has also performed in the companies of Colin Connor, Mark Haim, Phyllis Lamhut, Janie Brendel, Alan Danielson and Annabelle Gamson.

In 1992, Juste founded En Solo, a vehicle for her own choreography as well as the work of other choreographers. Her choreography has been commissioned by Toronto’s DanceWorks series, L’Agora de la Danse of Montreal, The Yard, on Martha’s Vineyard, the Schonberg Dance Cycle in New York and the Quebec Museum of Art. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec Foundation for Creation in Fine Arts, and has been honored with the Canadian Dance Award, Le Prix Jacqueline Lemieux.

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 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.