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Contact: Angey Saucier
Date: 10/7/04
 
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SOUTHEASTERN DANCEWORKS PRESENTS “POSTCARDS WITH A VIEW”
      HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s department of music and dramatic arts’ Izzy Dance will present “Postcards With a View” as their contribution to Fanfare 2004, the university’s October arts festival, on Oct. 20 at Vonnie Borden Theatre.
      Directed and partly choreographed by Southeastern dance instructor Dana Brewer-Plazinic, “Postcards With a View” uses the medium of dance to presents vignettes about human relations, conflicts, dreams, memories, joyful times and forgotten places. The 7:30 p.m. concert will feature the choreography of Southeastern faculty and students, live music by Southeastern musicians and singers, and a special contribution by guest artist-in-residence Skip Costa and the Lyric Dance Ensemble of New Orleans.
      Costa, a Hammond resident now based in New York City, is a member of New York’s Coremovement Project and New York Los Angeles Dance Conventions and Competitions. Rounding out the cast of choreographers are Jennifer Buck of New Orleans and Jarrod Cashe and Greta Sharp of Hammond.
      Dancers for the evening’s performance include Cashe, Sharp, Jerica Robinson, Thurman Fields, Wendi Reimann, Vanessa Seaux and Bridget Lyons of Hammond; Brittni Barlow and Jodie Sandefur of Albany; Micah Richerand of Folsom; Shaylyn Ducoing of Lafitte; Misty Nebeker of Mandeville; Heather Brooks of Pearl River; Brewer-Plazinic, Lyric Cox, Megan Camardelle, and Samantha Babylon of Covington; Jada Foret of Lockport; Stacie Sabath and Shaylyn Ducoing of Chalmette; Leslie Comeaux of Violet; Lauren Landry, Kayla Griffin and Daphne Lamendola of Baton Rouge; Jessica Lee of Kentwood; Amanda Perkins of Slidell; April Bardwell, Heidi Easley and Ashley Jones of Ponchatoula; Sharon Condon of New Orleans; Merrie C. Kidd of Poplarville
      Musicians are Lenny Mastascuso of Violet, Colin Hebert of Westwego, Sara Harris of Hammond and David Bryan of New Orleans. Singers are Marsha Scott and Jessica Davis of Ponchatoula, Janelle Bourgeois of Hammond, Kevin Messer of Baton Rouge, and members of Phi Mu Alpha and Delta Omicron Fraternity.
      Tickets are $4 general admission; $2 seniors, Southeastern faculty, staff, alumni and non-Southeastern students; and free for Southeastern students with ID. 
      For more information on “Postcards With a View,” contact Brewer-Plazinic at 985-549-5254 or dbrewer@selu.edu.
      Tickets for “Postcards With a View,” as well as with other Fanfare event tickets, are available at the Columbia box office, 220 East Thomas St., Hammond, 985?543?4371. Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m., weekdays. Tickets will also be available at the Vonnie Borden box office in D Vickers Hall the night of the show beginning at 6:30 p.m. 
      For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information about Fanfare events, contact the Columbia Theatre, 985?543?4366 or fanfare_ctpa@selu.edu. Information can also be found online at www.selu.edu/fanfare