Uptown Dance Company Presents Spring Fusion 2015 Dance Festival

“Gulledge-Brown has chosen quality and sophisticated material for her company to perform. Good dancing is the core and strength of this fusion (or infusion) of artists.”

– Nichelle Suzanne Strzepek, Dance Source Houston, 2009

Lights, music, dance! Uptown Dance Company invites you to a night of live jazz and dance, reminiscent of a bygone era where people come together to socialize and dance. Premiering three brand new works comprise of vignettes, Spring Fusion 2015 Dance Festival is a dance concert featuring Uptown Dance Company and The Jose-Miguel Yamal Jazz Quartet, with pre-show by Uptown Dance Company II and Senior Company.

Spring Fusion 2015 Dance Festival is a journey filled with the passion of tango and Latin jazz, the suavity and elegance of 50s jazz, and the funk and soul of Motown. Inspired by her travels to South America, Artistic Director Beth Gulledge-Brown premieres A Latin Suite, where the audience is invited join the dancers onto a field trip of passion, love and festive celebrations.

She also restages Reminisce, a collection of vignettes inspired by the cool jazz of the 1950s. Evoking the charm, elegance and grace of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and accompanied by the music of Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin, Reminisce is a tribute to Gulledge-Brown’s grandparents who introduced her to the world of jazz at a young age.

The evening is finished with The Last Suite, set to the blues and funk of Motown music. At the end of the performance, the audience is invited to dance the night away with live music provided by The Jose-Miguel Yamal Jazz Quartet.

Uptown Dance Company present Spring Fusion 2015 Dance Festival on Friday, March 6, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. (pre-show at 7:00pm), at Uptown Dance Centre, 7417 Shadyvilla Ln., Houston, TX 77055. Tickets are $30 General Admission / $25 Senior/ $15 Student with College I.D. For tickets and information, call 713-686-0334 or visit the website at www.uptowndance.org

Uptown Dance Company was originally founded in 1999 by Gulledge-Brown. Gulledge-Brown understood the need to supplement her students’ training with performance skills and founded the company to provide a performing outlet for her advanced students. Gulledge-Brown’s studio has grown and her vision has grown right along with it, Uptown Dance Centre now houses two companies: one for advanced students and one for professionals. Her students continue to perform in the pre-professional company, now Uptown Dance Company II, as Uptown Dance Company continues forward as a professional company. Uptown Dance Company members include Erica Blumenthal, Adrian Ciobanu (formerly of Sarasota Ballet), Lindsay Cortner, Eric Glenn, Amy Phillips, Emily Roy, Donald Sayre, Ruben Trevino, and Katie Trevino.