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Show IPAGE 12 THURSDAY, APRIL 6 , 2000 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS Ballroom team ready to dance Four will solo perform dances to include the waltz, lindy, East Coast More than a dozen styles of ballroom dance will be swing , Charleston, two-step, theatre arts, cha-cha, showcased during the April 6-7 program to be presented mambo, quick step, West Coast swing, disco, samba, by the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. The company's · spring Ballroom Dance Concert· will Latin competition medley, hip hop, funk, and tap. begin at 7:30 p.m. each night in the Centrum Arena. "This is our first year with the SUU program," Roberts Admission is explains. "but $6 for adults both Marie and $4 for and I have students and five years senior experience in citizens. the BYU In addition dance program , to participants including from the SUU company, three years dancers are with their expected to touring perform from ballroom the Cedar company City High :which School Swing performs Club, extensively Dansworks throughout Studio and a the world." group from The St. George. husband-wife "The team directed preponderthe Provo ance of Ballroom dance team members Bethani Nielsen, a senior interior design major from High School dances will be Layton, and Bryan Haakensen, a senior biology major from Oakley, Utah, prepare for Dance Team perfoFmed by the upcoming dance concert. for three dancers from years before the SUU company, but we also wanted other groups to coming to SUU. They met in the BYU progr~m . Richard participate with us,· said Richard Roberts, who with his is originally from Davenport, Iowa, and Marie was born in wife, Marie, will co-direct the performances. "The 90Hong Kong . In addition to directing SUU's ballroom minute concert will include about 22 dances of many dance program, Richard and Marie teach dance classes types." through SUU Continuing Education. This will be the fifth annual spring dance concert at For more information on the ballroom performances, contact Roberts at 865-8375. SUU. More than 50 dancers from the university will === Four winners of the concerto/aria competition at _SUU will be featured soloists at an April 17 performance being presented by the university's symphony orchestra. Violinist Christine Dunaway of Cedar City, will p~rform Mozart's Concerto #3 in G Major, and violist Victoria Hoy of St. George, will be featured in the Viola Concerto in D by Karl Stamitz. Other soloists are pianist Brittney Kirk of Payson, who will perform Chopin's Piano Concerto #2 in f minor, and Amber White of St. George, who will be the flute soloist in the Concertino by Chaminade. The concert will be held in the Thorley Recital Hall of the SUU Music Building beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $3. ·we will be highlighting SUU student solois.ts in a program of dazzling favorites," said Philip Baldwin , director of the SUU Symphony Orchestra . "In addition to works by Mozart and Stamitz, two of the greatest classical composers of their day, patrons can enjoy a beautiful setting of English folk songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a ravishing flute concerto by French composer Chaminade and the virtuosity of Polish composer Frederick Chopin. "The program will open with the ever-popular Poet and Peasant Overture by von Suppe,• Baldwin said . Dunaway was recently selected by international audition to attend the Meadowmont Summer School of Music in New York, a six-week camp focusing on private practice and chamber music. Hoy was also a soloist with the Southwest Symphony at March 30-31 performances in St. George. Dunaway, Hoy, and White study with Baldwin. White also works· with Launa Whitehead of the SUU faculty. Kirk is a student of Don Massengale. For more information about the performance contact Baldwin at 586-7892. · • Great pay-up to $450. per week • Fun and relaxed atmosphere • Advancement opportunities • Flexible hours 00 Now hiring for morning and evening shifts. 1552 W. 200 S. Ste. B • 586-0733 I• |