There is no better way to jump back into school than to catch the Sacramento State dance program’s Choreographer’s Collective concert directed by Lorelei Bayne that will be held Sept. 10-14 in Solano Hall room 1010.

The Choreographer’s Collective dance concert, which has been performed annually since 2007, showcases both technical dancing and production skills necessary for dance students.

Aside from being a product of the developed technical and production skills, it is also a way to train dance students for their senior projects and dance careers.

Sac State choreographers participating in this showcase include: Jessica Aliganga, Cynthia Booth, Jory Horn, Irene Garibaldi, Alexandria Griffith, Erik Molina, Melyssa Silfer and Mai Xiong.

“The show is extremely diverse. There is a large variety of concepts from piece to piece in this show,” Griffith said.

Griffith said her dance piece has no message behind it but instead created a piece that is familiar for the audience in order for them to relate to it.

Dancing alongside these choreographers are approximately 25 dancers. These dancers are comprised of Sac State students, alumni and Dancers Investigation Group, a Sacramento-based professional dance group.

Co-Founders of Dancers Investigation Group include Bayne, who is also a professor and Vice-Chair of the Dance Department and dance professor Philip Flickinger.

“There is a good blend in this show,” said Dancers Investigation Group performer Danielle Johnson. “We have modern, theatrical, Hmong, and hip-hop. The choreographers have made good use of abstracting acrobats and jazz, as well.”

The emotional familiarity felt among the featured dances creates an inclusive experience for the show, inviting all types of interpretations of the dances according to an individual’s life experiences.

Inspiration behind the production of this show is individualized for every piece.

Once a choreographer is chosen to expand on their creative research, they are granted permission to create a dance for the Choreographer’s Collective concert that speaks to their artistic inspiration.

“Each choreographer submits a proposal of their current creative research ideas and has the freedom, if selected, to explore those movement ideas for this concert, ” Bayne said.

According to Bayne,the dance concert is meant to evoke emotional responses.

“Dance is similar to poetry in that the beauty is that it can mean many different things to different people,” Bayne said . “We hope audiences are inspired and touched by what they experience at the concert.”

Supporting the dance program’s showcases also enables community viewers and students to understand and possibly contribute to building the program.

“The support of the dance program at Sac State allows for their work to be displayed and also allows current students to see what they could be a part of,” Johnson said.

Ticket prices vary for the Choreographer’s Collective dance show.

Beginning Wednesday Sept. 10, the dance concert will begin at 6:30 p.m with the same schedule on Thursday. Friday and Saturday the dance concert will begin at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Visit this website for more ticket information: http://www.csus.edu/dram/season.html.