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.

The Portland company Indiedanceworks is among artists performing at the eighth annual F.A.B. dance showcase. Photograph by Dana Crawford/SALT.

NOTE TO READERS: The F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase planned for Friday, Feb. 8, has been rescheduled to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, due to a predicted snowstorm.

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.

The Franco-American Heritage Center and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College dance program are partnering to offer the sixth annual F.A.B. dance concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at the FAHC, 46 Cedar St.

Tickets are $14 for general admission and $12 for students and seniors. To learn more and order tickets, please visit the center’s website: www.francoamericanheritage.org

F.A.B. (“Franco-American/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½”) is an ongoing effort to bring the Maine community together through the arts. Choreographers from across Maine and New England submit work for inclusion in the program, which also features ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student groups.

This year, styles range from contemporary ballet to Japanese butoh, to contemporary modern dance, to jazz. The variety makes for an exciting evening filled with beauty, tenderness, humor, new ideas and familiar forms.

Regional choreographers sharing their work in the historic venue of the FAHC include Rebecca Laber-Smith and Robyn Nast, Zoe Eddy, Wendy E. Getchell, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ senior Lindsay Reuter, Heather Baur, Annie Kloppenberg, Nell Simpson and Nancy Salmon. Karl Rogers, a member of David Dorfman Dance, offers a solo piece performed by Rachel Boggia, visiting assistant professor of dance at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and acting director of the college’s dance program.

The event is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and the generosity of the FAHC.

Would it be the newspaper? Radio or TV? E-mail, Twitter or Facebook?

If you had your druthers, what would be your favorite way to learn about arts and entertainment events in the Lewiston-Auburn region?

That’s what ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and a number of local organizations would like to know. And we’re hoping you’ll tell us.

Through a survey launched today on SurveyMonkey.com, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and such organizations as L/A Arts hope to assess audience preferences for cultural events — the types of events you most enjoy, how you hear about them now and, most important, how you would like to hear about them.

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“The earthquake in mass communications is shaking up arts presenters, too,” says ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ staff writer Doug Hubley, who publicizes cultural events for the college. “As we try to spread the word about happenings at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, or at the Public Theatre or L/A Arts, we can’t assume that the old methods are still effective.

“The question is, what methods will be effective? And we’re hoping our audiences will use this survey to tell us.” The 8-minute survey is titled “The Arts in L/A: Getting the Word Out.”

Currently, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ follows a fairly traditional path in publicizing events — press releases to the media, a printed monthly calendar mailed to subscribers and the same calendar online. The information gathered through the survey, the sponsors hope, will have a two-birds, one-stone effect, Hubley says.

“If it turns out our print pieces are going straight to the recycling bin, we may be able to save money on printing and mailing. And at the same time, we’ll learn how to give information to people the way they want to get it,” whether it’s through e-mail or even a Facebook site, he says.

Partnering with ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the survey project are the , the , the , the , , , the and the .

– Doug Hubley, Office of Communications and Media Relations