Bethlehem, Pa., March 23, 2016— Moravian College will host the 41st Anniversary Dance Company Concert that will feature student-choreographed pieces along with those created by faculty and guests. The concerts will take place on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Foy Hall.
Beginning as the Moravian College Dance Club in the 1975, the dance program has provided girls each year with the opportunity to see and participate in workshops with professional dance companies for over four decades. The dancers also participate in Bethlehem schools arts days and in dance workshops on other LVAIC campuses.
“People should come to the concert to expand their dance network and support the community. Our concert is not just Moravian students, but a compilation of some of the greatest influences in Lehigh Valley dance,” said Melissa Rowbottom, Artistic Director.
The event will include a variety of dance genres including ballet, lyrical, contemporary, modern, tap, and jazz. Moravian College will host numerous guests for the event including Coral Nolan's Academy of Dance, In Motion Dance Company, Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, and Repertory Dance Theatre and Tap Ties. This year there will be four student choreographers along with various guest choreographers that include Samantha Anderson, Amy Browne Smith, Mary Ann Gillen Hoffman, Dawn Ketterman-Benner, and Rebecca Moyer.
“The students have been great and are working very hard. I cannot wait to see it all pay off. We will be offering dance classes for credit for the first time in the fall,” said Rowbottom. “The concert is a great way to allow the dance company to celebrate new opportunities and begin making their mark at Moravian.”
General admission for the event is $10. For more information, please visit the Moravian Music Department web page www.moravian.edu/music.
Moravian College encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. Anyone who anticipates needing any type of accommodation or who has questions about the physical access provided should contact Michael Wilson at 610-861-1365 or wilsonm@moravian.edu prior to visiting Moravian.
Moravian College is a private coeducational liberal arts college, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For over 274 years, the Moravian College degree has been based on a liberal arts curriculum where literature, history, cultural values and global issues, ethics, and aesthetic expression and the social sciences are infused with multidisciplinary perspectives. Visit www.moravian.edu to learn more about how the Moravian College liberal arts curriculum prepares its students for life-long success.