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Festival of Fine Arts presents
River North Dance Company

LAKELAND, Fla. (Jan. 6, 2003) - The Florida Southern College Festival of Fine Arts welcomes the River North Dance Company to Branscomb Auditorium Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

River North Dance Company is one of the country's most dynamic and nationally recognized jazz/contemporary dance companies. Now in its thirteenth season, River North tours extensively across the United States. The company has been hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times for its "...impeccable technique and...bravura performing style" and in Dance Magazine for its "virtuosic...balletic, athletic, acrobatic" dancing. 

Tickets are $20. FSC students admitted free; non-FSC students admitted at half price. For ticket information, please contact the Branscomb Auditorium box office at (863) 680-4296.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. 

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