The 16th annual Chattanooga Dances! concert will be presented in the Center for Creative Arts Auditorium next Thursday at 7 p.m.
Chattanooga Dances! highlights the city’s non-profit dance organizations along with those schools that maintain a full dance curriculum. Companies appearing on this year’s concert will be Ballet Tennessee, Barger Academy of Fine Arts, Baylor’s Verve, Center for Creative Arts’ Project Motion, Chattanooga Ballet, and GPS’s Terpsichord.
"The evening will showcase Chattanooga’s diverse dance community in works ranging from ballet to modern to jazz choreography. The concert includes both professional and student choreographers. Join us for this unique evening when Chattanooga’s dance organizations appear on the same stage. Audience and dancers alike can celebrate the richness of the dance community in Chattanooga and experience a taste of what each organization has to offer. The Chattanooga Dances! concert has become an anticipated event over its history as a valuable collaborative arts experience," officials said.
Karen Wilson, director of dance at Center for Creative Arts believes the concert is not only a showcase for Chattanooga's arts community but an example of cooperation and collaboration between Chattanooga’s public and private schools as well as among diverse dance organizations; a collaboration which all arts group in the city believe is important in showing the community what can be accomplished by working together.
“The annual event builds partnerships between Chattanooga's dance organizations. We are the only city in the state that brings their dance community together to perform on one stage,” said Jessica Laliberte Bowman of CCA.
Felicion McMillon of Barger Academy also values the community involvement, “Barger Academy Movement makers have had the opportunity to perform many places in Chattanooga and beyond, but the performance opportunity that we always get extremely excited about is Chattanooga Dances! This will be our 4th year participating in Chattanooga Dances. This concert is, in my opinion, one of the best evenings of dance that Chattanooga has to offer.”
The Center for Creative Arts sponsors this yearly event. Tickets are available at the door for $5. For more information call 423-209-5942.