LAKEPORT — The Lake County Arts Council”s 29th annual Spring Dance Festival is fast approaching and is the premier dance event in Lake County. At long last, this year”s performances will be held at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre at 275 S. Main in Lakeport, with a matinee at 1 p.m. and an evening performance at p.m. on Saturday and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday. Doors open one-half hour prior to the performance.
This year”s theme is “We Should Be Dancin” and is being assembled by a stellar cast of local choreographers who include Antoinette Goetz, Sheila LaVine, Michelle John-Smith from Lakeport and Annette Lee from the Konocti Dance Academy in Clearlake. These studios, partnering with the LCAC, will delight with a jam-packed program featuring more than 130 Lake County dancers, including young and talented budding choreographers, who will present two hours of a wide variety of dance styles from delicate ballet to robust clogging. Add the nostalgic rhythms of Broadway and tap, hip-hop, belly dancing, hula, ballroom dancing and a grand finale with the entire cast, and “you will be dancin”” as you exit the theater.
General admission tickets at $15 and $10 children”s tickets can be purchased at the Main Street Gallery, located at 325 N. Main St. and at Catfish Books in the Willow Tree Plaza on 11th Street in Lakeport and at Wild About Books on Olympic Drive in Clearlake. Reserved seating at $20 is available at the Soper-Reese box office from noon to 5 p.m. on Thursdays, by calling 263-0577 or online at www.soperreesetheatre.com.
Shelby Posada is executive director of the Lake County Arts Council.
