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BYU Ballroom Dance Company in concert April 8-9

The award-winning Brigham Young University Ballroom Dance Company will perform "Ballroom in Concert" with Lee Wakefield as artistic director Friday through Saturday, April 8-9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott Center.

A matinee performance will be held Saturday, April 9 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $10. For tickets, call the Marriott Center Ticket Office at (801) 422-2981.

The Ballroom Dance Company will perform for the first time in concert the award-winning "Cinemagic," a Standard Formation medley, and "Rhapsody 'n Blues," a Latin Formation medley.

The company will also perform a new theater arts number, "If You Could Hie to Kolob," choreographed by Wakefield.

The BYU Ballroom Dance Company tours nationally and internationally, and has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, South America, the South Pacific, Australia and the Far East, entertaining audiences of all ages. The Company won the prestigious British Open Standard and Latin American Formation Championships last May in Blackpool, England.

For more information contact Lee Wakefield at (801) 422-5087.

Writer: Rebekah Hanson

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