Pace University Holds First Annual Dance Showcase 'DANCE OUT LOUD!' 4/9-10

So YOU think you can dance? Pace University's Performing Arts Department is proud to showcase its numerous talented dancers in the first annual dance showcase, "Dance Out Loud!"

Conceived and directed by Rhonda Miller, Director/Lecturer of Dance at Pace, this concert will feature tap, jazz, ballet, modern, contemporary, and hip hop with choreography by Rhonda Miller, Joshua Dean, Alisa Paradowski, Jennifer Littlefield, Stephanie Torbik, Mike Schulster, and student choreographers Ashley Williams and Courtney Taylor. The inspiring growth in students' interest in dance at Pace University and passion of its faculty beautifully combine to make this first of many annual dance concert.

"Dance Out Loud" will take the stage Friday, April 9 and Saturday, April 10 in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, located downtown in Once Pace Plaza, New York, New York 10038 on Spruce Street between Gold Street and Park Row. Tickets are $8 for students and seniors, $12 for all others, and can be purchased at the door. If you would like to reserve seats, e-mail theater@pace.edu.

Check out the promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTjBA8KfDQ

Rhonda Miller, the Director/Lecturer of Dance at Pace University, is a founder and co-owner of L.A.'s premier dance studio, The Edge, and leader of its successful convention business, L.A. DanceForce. She was included on Broadway director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell's team for Broadway Bares. Stage credits: Nothing Like A Dame at the Marquis Theater in New York City, ABC Daytime Salutes at Town Hall, The Wild Party, and numerous musicals for NYMF and regional theaters around the country. Television credits: General Hospital, and The Boys and It's Garry Shandling's Show for HBO. Commercials and Industrials: Chrysler, Toys R Us, Warner Brothers and Exxon-Mobil. Recently she was stage director for NICKELODEON UPFRONTS, and worked CATHERINE ZETA JONES on the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE Awards.

About Pace Performing Arts, New York City Campus: Faculty as working professionals (actors, Broadway/Off-Broadway directors, casting professionals) is a trademark of Pace's Performing Arts Department, located a mere two express subway stops from Broadway. Over 30 productions a year are among the attractions the undergraduate program has to offer students pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts Degrees in Acting or Musical Theater or a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Arts with specialized focuses in Acting, Directing or Design/Technical Theater. Read more at http://www.pace.edu/pace/dyson/academic-departments-and-programs/performing-arts

On a graduate level, The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University is the only Master in Fine Arts theater program officially sanctioned by The Actors Studio. The entire faculty is chosen and approved - and the curriculum is designed and supervised - by the leadership of The Actors Studio through its Curriculum Advisory Committee, including the Presidents of The Actors Studio, Ellen Burstyn, Harvey Keitel and Al Pacino. All students -- actors, directors, playwrights - train side-by-side as actors. All students participate in the Craft Seminars known to the world as the Bravo Network television series, "Inside The Actors Studio," hosted by James Lipton. For further information about the program, go to www.pace.edu/actorsstudiomfa

For 103 years Pace University has produced thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. Visit Pace on the web at www.pace.edu.