This weekend welcomes the Senior Dance Festival and Senior BFA Dance Concert. The program features several original student-choreographed modern dance pieces and collaboration with student composers from the school of music.

“There are a lot of different (dance) styles represented,” said Alex Tepe, a student choreographer and senior theatre major and dance minor. “There are lighter pieces and some darker pieces.”

Joan Meggitt, faculty director of the dance festival, said the program includes interpretations of personal journeys, coming of age, community, distraction, death and a dance of chance.

Alicia Diaz, a former artist-in-residence for the School of Theatre and Dance, was invited to choreograph one of the senior pieces.

“It felt like a wonderful continuity for me to come back and work with my old students,” Diaz said.

In the past, the Senior Dance Festival and Senior BFA Dance Concert were separate shows.

“This has been a much more extensive project than it has been in past years,” Meggitt said of combining the two shows.

The program will run the entire weekend in the Wright-Curtis Theatre in the Music and Speech Center. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

–Kyle McDonald