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The Great Leaps Dance Concert, a popular end-of-the-semester presentation by all dance classes taught at both University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College, will be held on Saturday, December 6, 7:30 p.m. at the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center.

Founded by a Hawaiʻi dance legend, the late Earnest T. Morgan, to showcase student learning and accomplishments in dance the peformance has become a greatly anticipated biannual event on campus.

At this semester’s Great Leaps Dance Concert, 100-plus dance students from UH Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College will perform original choreography.

  • Celeste Staton’s ballet classes will perform a charming dance of toys come-to-life and a beautiful waltz by Shostakovich.
  • Annie Bunker’s UH Hilo modern dance class will perform A Moment in Rain—21 dancers and large umbrellas impart an impression of a community exploring the wonders and joys of celebrating the wet liquid that falls from the sky.
  • A Hawaiʻi CC modern jazz class will perform Caught—21 dancers investige repetitive habits, co-dependency and the sensations of being stuck and the inability to manifest change.
  • The UH Hilo jazz class is doing a piece that is a nod to Broadway and film legend Bob Fosse, co-mingled with other fun and funky dance moves.
  • Dance instructor Kea Kapahua presents a special piece How Many?, which incorporates interviews with two combat veterans and portrays some of our society’s complexities in dealing with war and peace.
  • Dori Yamada, UH Hilo Performing Arts Center associate manager, creates a dance with shifting tones and a mood that mimics the unsettling way that dreams can shift from one minute to the next.
  • Learn more at the UH Hilo Stories website.

    Ticket information

  • $7 general admission
  • $5 for UH Hilo and Hawaiʻi CC students with valid ID and children 17 and under

To purchase tickets, visit the UH Hilo Performing Arts website or call the box office at (808) 932-7490.

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