[206] MTSU Fall Dance Concert Event Deadline Extended

MTSU FALL DANCE CONCERT EVENT DEADLINE EXTENDED
Special Pre-Performance Fundraising Dinner, Lecture Set for Dec. 4

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 16, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Kim Neal Nofsinger, 615-494-7904 or nofsinge@mtsu.edu

(MURFREESBORO)—Arts lovers still have a chance to join the award-winning MTSU Dance Theatre for a special pre-performance fundraising dinner and lecture on Saturday, Dec. 4, before the final evening of the company’s Fall Dance Concert.

The reservation deadline has been extended through Wednesday, Nov. 24, for the 5:30 p.m. event in MTSU’s Tom Jackson Building. Tickets are $35 per person, and reservations can be made by calling 615-494-7628 or e-mailing chudd@mtsu.edu.

The special event will include a pre-concert talk by visiting dance scholar Dr. Maura Keefe. After dinner and the lecture, attendees will join other audience members in Tucker Theatre at 7:30 p.m. for the Fall Dance Concert.

Proceeds from the evening will help fund dance scholarships at MTSU and the Dance Theatre’s participation in “Sharing the Legacy: The Nikolais Centennial” at Hunter College in New York City next April.

“The performance in this venue will allow MTSU to perform alongside some of the foremost dance companies and universities in the nation and to be reviewed by some of the foremost dance critics, scholars and historians,” said Professor Kim Neal Nofsinger, director of the pre-professional, auditioned dance company.

The nationally recognized troupe learned repertory, participated in master classes and attended a series of lectures on Alwin Nikolais, one of American modern dance’s acclaimed pioneers, during a weeklong residency led by Alberto Del Saz, artistic director of the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company, earlier this semester. MTSU’s students are incorporating one of Nikolais’ classic works, “Pond,” into the company’s national tour as well as the Fall Dance Concert.

The MTSU Dance Theatre Fall Dance Concert will be performed nightly at 7:30 Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 2-4, in Tucker Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for MTSU faculty and staff and K-12 students; MTSU students will be admitted free with valid ID.

Dance Concert tickets are available in advance by calling 615-494-8810 or by visiting the Tucker Theatre lobby box office from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets also will be available at the door before the performances.

For more information and a complete schedule of events for MTSU’s Dance Program in the Department of Speech and Theatre, visit www.mtsu.edu/dance.


Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: Arts lovers still have a chance to join the award-winning MTSU Dance Theatre for a special pre-performance fundraising dinner and lecture on Saturday, Dec. 4, before the final evening of the company’s Fall Dance Concert. The reservation deadline has been extended through Wednesday, Nov. 24, for the 5:30 p.m. event in MTSU’s Tom Jackson Building. Tickets are $35 per person, and reservations can be made by calling 615-494-7628 or e-mailing chudd@mtsu.edu. Proceeds will help fund dance scholarships at MTSU and the Dance Theatre’s participation in “Sharing the Legacy: The Nikolais Centennial” at Hunter College in New York City next April. The MTSU Dance Theatre Fall Dance Concert will be performed nightly at 7:30 Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 2-4, in Tucker Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for MTSU faculty and staff and K-12 students and free for MTSU students with valid ID. For ticket information, call 615-494-8810; for more information and a complete schedule of events for MTSU’s Dance Program, visit its website at www.mtsu.edu/dance.

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