Emory Dance Company to Present Spring Concert TABULA RASA, 4/26-28

Six Emory Dance Program students venture into the world of choreography, many for the first time, in the Emory Dance Company Spring Concert, "Tabula Rasa," April 26-28 in the Dance Studio of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. "Tabula Rasa" presents a varied collection of dance forms, touching upon hip-hop, jazz, as well as contemporary dance.

The 2012-2013 Emory Dance Company season celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schwartz Center and in this final concert of the season, the students pay tribute to ten years of performing excellence as well as the beginning of another decade upon a "tabula rasa" or "blank slate." The concert's choreographers include Kayla Davis, Emily Hammond, Lauren Kaplan, Heidi Liu, Andre Lumpkin, and Julio Ulises Medina.

Emory Dance Company presents "Tabula Rasa" April 26-28 at 8 p.m. and April 28 at 2 p.m. in the Dance Studio of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 for discount category members; $5 for students. For more information call the Arts at Emory box office at 404-727-5050 or visit www.arts.emory.edu.

The Emory Dance Program provides a curriculum that interweaves both the practical and theoretical to foster students' creative, intellectual, and communicative powers in the field of dance. The Emory Dance Program seeks to develop skilled and uniquely expressive individuals who move and act with intelligence and sensitivity, think independently, and value original thought and diversity.

Photo courtesy of Emory Dance Company.