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Ballet dancers from FSC|Dance, the dance program at Florida Southern College, perform in a concert last April at Branscomb Auditorium. FSC|Dance holds its next dance
concert at Branscomb on April 21 and 22. Photo provided by Florida Southern College.
Spring Dance Concert at FSC Features

Classical and Contemporary By Cary McMullen

Florida Southern College

FSC|Dance, the dance program at Florida Southern of noble birth. She saves a young French officer from
College, has taken off like a grand jeté. a murderous plot, her identity is revealed, and the
couple is united. Two pieces in particular from the
The program, part of the Department of Theatre ballet, the Pas de trois and the Grand pas classique,
Arts and Dance at FSC, is only in its third year, but it are considered standards of the repertoire.
has blossomed, with 30 students either majoring or
minoring in dance. The styles of dance studied at FSC The second half of the program turns to modern
include ballet and modern, and both will be on display dance, with four pieces performed. One of the pieces
in FSC|Dance’s spring concert, “Momentum,” on April is choreographed by Jon Lehrer, director of the Lehrer
21 and 22. The concert will include an abbreviated Dance Company of New York, and is performed to
version of one of the early classical ballets, Paquita. original music.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on April 21 and “It’s great for our dancers because they get the
2:30 p.m. on April 22, with a preview performance experience of dancing to a piece from a working dance
at 7:30 p.m. on April 20. All performances will be company,” said Erin LaSala, assistant professor of
in Branscomb Auditorium on the FSC campus, and dance and director of FSC’s dance program.
tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for students.
Also on the program is a new dance by LaSala,
The first half of the program features dances from who has won awards for her choreography, and a
Paquita, a ballet devised and choreographed by the contemporary ballet piece by Carol Erkes, director of
great 19th-century master Marius Petipa to music the Florida Dance Theatre in Lakeland.
by Éduoard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus. The story
involves a young gypsy girl, Paquita, who is secretly Clearly for FSC|Dance, the “momentum” is building.

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