Professional Dancer to Headline Sunday Show

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This year’s Holiday Dance Spectacular performance presented by Dance City and the Arts, LLC, will include professional dancer Lorelei Chang.

The performance will take place Sunday, Dec. 18, at 1 p.m. in the auditorium. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at Dance City and the Arts, The Pepper Pot, The Music Shoppe and the Southington Parks and Recreation Department.

The event is a fundraiser for The Southington Social Services and Salvation Army and is sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department, the Calvanese Foundation and the Southington Arts Council.

Lorelei Chang is the Artistic Director of DancEnlight, a professional modern dance company currently at the Connecticut Concert Ballet in Manchester. Chang has performed nationally and internationally including her most recent performance for the Grand Imperial Charity Banquet in Tokyo, Japan on Oct. 1, hosted by the former Indonesian's President's wife Dewi Sukarno.

Her performance with her twin sister, Mai Nakanishi who is the co-director of the company, received overwhelming feedback. She was commissioned to choreograph and guest teaching for many schools and festivals locally and globally including GuangDong Modern Dance Company; many Art Institutes in Beijing, China; Trinity College; Full Force Dance Theater; Greater Harford Academy; Connecticut Concert Ballet; Rebound Dance Festival; 5x5 Dance Festival, Montessori Schools in both Arizona and Connecticut, Miss Porter's School in Farmington and more.

Her choreography has been presented at the Beijing International Dance Festival in China, the American Dance Festival, the International Dance Festival in Hong Kong and Dance Festival in India, Trinity College, the Hartt School, Marlborough Arts Center, Charter Oak Cultural Center, International Arts and Ideas, 5x5 Dance Festival, Rebound Dance Festival, Connecticut Commission on Cultural and Tourism, International Calligraphy Conference at Stonehill College, Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan and more.