The Zodiaque Dance Company will present its spring concert March 5-8 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The eclectic program will feature styles as diverse as modern contemporary, hip hop, African gumboot and jazz choreographed by UB faculty and professional guest artists.

Kerry Ring, associate clinical professor, is artistic director of Zodiaque Dance Company; Jenna Del Monte, clinical assistant professor, is managing director.

Choreographers include:

• Guy Thorne, principal dancer for the internationally renowned Garth Fagan Dance and co-founder and artistic director of FuturPointe Dance in Rochester. His work mixes African and contemporary styles.
• Paula Peters, assistant professor of dance at SUNY Fredonia and director of Fredonia’s student company Fredonia Dance Ensemble, focuses her teaching, choreographic and performance research on exploring the many facets of jazz dance aesthetics in American culture. She is presenting a modern-style piece.
• UB alumna Robin Hibbert specializes in various West African dance styles. She has created a work based on popular South African gumboot dance, a style that evolved from the gold mines as workers engaged in competitive movement while still in their wellington rubber work boots, nicknamed “gumboots.”
• UB alumnus and Chicago-based choreographer Richard Ashworth specializes in urban and rhythmic dance. He is presenting a hip-hop piece.

Other highlights of the concert include a work by professional guest artists-in-residence Entity Contemporary Dance, a Los Angeles-based group that forges connections between hip hop, contemporary and modern. The work will also be performed by Zodiaque at the annual American College Dance Association Conference, being held next month at West Virginia University.

Ring will provide a contemporary work in collaboration with Buffalo composer Kevin McFadden, a regular piano accompanist for department dance classes.

Other choreographers include Melanie George, who will be a one-week resident guest artist this semester and provide a jazz piece, and Michael Bagne, a graduate student in the UB Arts Management Program, who will present a contemporary piece.

Tickets for the Zodiaque Dance Company’s spring concert are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors, and can be purchased online and at the CFA box office one hour before the show.

Tickets are also available at the door one hour prior to show.