Extensions Dance Company to perform March 21-23

Extensions Dance Company, Salve Regina’s select group of dancers, will perform in originally choreographed pieces when they take the stage for their 2013 dance concert at the Casino Theatre March 21-23.

Performances will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 3 p.m. matinee scheduled for Saturday.

General admission tickets will be available at the door, or can be reserved in advance by calling the box office at (401) 341-2250 or visiting tinyurl.com/salvecasino. Tickets are $5 for Thursday’s performance, while weekend performances are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, students and military, and $5 for Salve Regina students, faculty and staff.

The concert will feature choreography by Salve Regina faculty and students along with four guest artists. Tommy Neblett, artistic director of the dance program at Boston Conservatory, set a work titled “Aloha” on an all-female cast, while Teal Darkenwald, a professor of dance at East Carolina University, set a dramatic piece titled “Inferno.” Other guest pieces include “No, No … Really” by Matt Pardo of Lucinda Child’s Dance Company and “Orbit” by Christine Sandorfi, who dances locally with Island Moving Company.

Extensions Dance Company is comprised of Cayley Christoforou ’15, Jenna-Lyn Geysen ’16, Danielle Gionet ’13, Allyson Hamel ’15, Alli Montecillo ’14, Amanda Morton ’15, Erica Porter ’15, Courtney Randall ’13, Chrissy Rooney ’14, Elysa Schuhmacher ’16, Casey Sheehan ’14, Alysia Sjoberg ’16, Lexie Stewart ’16 and Kayla Tolman ’15. Lindsay Guarino, assistant professor of dance, is the company’s artistic director.