BYU Department of Dance to present annual “Ballroom in Concert” April 10-11

The Brigham Young University Department of Dance presents the annual “Ballroom in Concert” with the BYU Ballroom Dance Company on Friday and Saturday, April 10-11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott Center, including a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday.

Tickets are available at price levels of $12 and $16, and can be purchased in person at the BYU Ticket Office in the Harris Fine Arts Center or Marriott Center, by phone 801.422.2981 or online at byuarts.com.

Led by Artistic Director Lee Wakefield, the concert will feature 160 dancers from the largest collegiate ballroom dance program in the world performing in their 33rd annual ballroom dance concert.

The Ballroom Dance Company will embark on a national tour later this summer, traveling to Fairfield, Iowa, and making multiple stops in Illinois to perform in Nauvoo and Springfield before returning home to Utah to perform in St. George and Ogden.

The team has won the U.S. Formation Dance Champion Team title consecutively since 1982, and since 1971 has received 22 first-place awards at the British Open Ballroom Dance Competition. The company has performed in 31 states in the U.S. and in 30 countries in Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South Africa and the South Pacific.