The wait is over: F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase happens March 2
The Portland company Indiedanceworks is among artists performing at the eighth annual F.A.B. dance showcase. Photograph by Dana Crawford/SALT.
The eighth annual F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase, featuring artists from Lewiston-Auburn, elsewhere in Maine and beyond, takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St.
Admission is $14 for adults and $12 for seniors and students, available or by calling 207-689-2000.
Named for the community partners presenting the showcase — the Franco-American center and Bates College — F.A.B. brings the Maine community together through dance. A variety of dance genres come together in a memorable evening filled with beauty, tenderness, humor, innovation and familiar forms.
Choreographers from across Maine and New England, including ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students and faculty, Colby College students, and choreographers from New Hampshire and Connecticut College, will present work.
From ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, F.A.B. dance artists are Rachel Boggia, assistant professor of dance, and three dance majors: juniors Bridgette Chandhoke of Fairfax, Va., and Leroy Barnes of Woodbridge, Va.; and sophomore Isaiah Rice of Dallas.
Other Maine artists on the program come from Androscoggin Dance, the professional training program at the Dance Center in Auburn; the Maine Dance Project; Shove Gently Dance; Indiedanceworks; Tim Rice and Debi Irons; and Range of Motion Arts.
Kira Gavin, a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 2012, has choreographed a large project for Androscoggin Dance based on the elements, and the F.A.B. program includes “Water” from that project. Gavin has also created a tap piece with dancers from the school.
Coming from Colby College is dance major Delaney McDonough.
New Hampshire choreographer-dancers Patricia Harms and Christine Simes are familiar members of the F.A.B. program. And Shawn Hove of Connecticut College is a regular on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival videography and documentation team.
