An exciting culturally diverse event from the CHESS Speaker Series is coming to the Schuster Theatre Friday.
Multicultural Dance Night will held as a part of the Schuster Theatre’s Mini-Fringe Festival at 6 p.m. Friday, aiming to celebrate the diversity of cultures found in the city of Erie at one unifying event.
The types of dances that will be featured in the show are Indian Classical Dance, a Chinese medley, Cuban Cha-Cha, hip-hop demonstrations, an Irish dance performance and Egyptian belly dancing.
Dancers from the Erie Dance Theater will also be showcasing performers from five African countries for a special African drum dance.
The show will additionally include a Korean martial arts demonstration.
Through these many different modes of dance and cultural expression, the dance show will become an example of the powerful human connection that can be communicated through dance across language and cultural barriers.
This event, in short, celebrates diversity, but also the universal language that makes people one: dance.
The doors for the event open at 5 p.m. and all seating will be general admission. Seating will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets online have been sold out according to event coordinator Kaustav Mukherjee, Ph.D., but there will be a sign-up sheet at the box office for all unclaimed ticket reservations, which will begin to be released to eager attendees at 5:45 p.m.
The event begins at 6 p.m. and there will be no late seating.
Masks are encouraged at the event, but not required.
“The dance night is emblematic of the wonderful cultural diversity we have in Erie,” said Mukherjee. “It will help us make human connections through the rhythms that bind us together as one city.”

ALI SMITH

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