Annual Young Dancer
Recital at TAMIU

Dancers as young as two through 60 years, who are members of the Texas A&M International University Young Dancer Program and students of the TAMIU Ballet Folklórico Juvenil will be featured at the annual TAMIU Young Dancer Christmas Recital Friday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.

Highlights from the program include excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and traditional holiday favorites.

The songs will be performed to a variety of different types of dances from pointe, ballet, jazz, hip hop, folklórico to flamenco.

The Young Dancer Program is a community-based program that holds classes from September-May, offering children ages two to 11 a combination class including ballet, tap and Spanish dance and Teen/Adult classes in ballet, tap, jazz and Spanish dance.

For more information, please contact Bede Leyendecker, interim chair, department of fine and performing arts, at 326.2649, e-mail bleyendecker@tamiu.edu or visit office in CFPA 217.

University office hours are 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.

Journalists who need additional information or help with media requests and interviews should contact the Office of Public Relations, Marketing and Information Services at prmis@tamiu.edu