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Danceworks, a studio concer, will be held on Friday, April 23, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 24, at 3 and 5 p.m. in the Lucille Norton HPE Complex Dance Studio, Room 201, on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University Dance Program will present Danceworks, a studio concert on Friday, April 23, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 24, at 3 and 5 p.m. in the Lucille Norton HPE Complex Dance Studio, Room 201, on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus.

The concert highlights student performance and choreography including works by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ dance majors Kara Cross, Nicole Funderburg, Candy Herrera and Trixie Turrubiartes.

Two guest artists will have their choreography performed. Amy Llanes, a graduate student from Sam Houston, will present "Strong Moves Slow," a duet recently selected by a panel of internationally renowned adjudicators for the gala concert at the South Central Region's conference of the American College Dance Festival Association.

Aileen Mapes, a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program at Arizona State University, has set a high-powered, original work titled "Neutrino." Mapes' many credits include being nominated for Best Local Dancer by the Houston Chronicle and profiled as a featured artist in Arts Houston Magazine.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty member Heather Samuelson contributes a new work to music by Dvorak and has restaged her dynamic duet, "Hallucination," featuring Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Repertory Dance Company member Lauren Spain and senior dance major Mysha Corb.

Elizabeth Rhodes, co-director of the dance program, has restaged "Caribbean Spirit" with live drumming by Max McRuiz and Daniel Gamboa of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ School of Music. The work, choreographed as a tribute to the American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, delighted audience members at its debut as part of the African-American history month celebration at Nacogdoches Public Library earlier this year.

Tickets will be sold at the door and are $5 for general admission and $3 for students, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty/staff, and senior citizens. For further information, call (936) 468-1543 or e-mail dance@sfasu.edu.