The Cerritos College Dance Department will hold a dance concert that will show pieces including hip-hop, salsa, modern, and ballet dances, among others.

The dance concert will be held from March 31 to April 2, starting at 8 p.m., with a Saturday show starting at 2:30 p.m.

Students, choreographers and outside dancers will participate in an hour and a half to two hour show with presale tickets sold at $10 and tickets sold at the door for $12 dollars to students and $15 to the general public.

Rebekah Davidson, part-time dance instructor, hopes that the people in attendance will be introduced to different genres of dance that they can enjoy and practice as well.

“I hope that they get an appreciation for dance, an idea of the broad spectrum [of dance], and if there is a certain style they already love, that they can broaden their understanding of it,” Davidson said.

Lesly Gomez, dance major, will be participating for the first time in the event and looks forward to the concert.

“I’m so excited to participate in the concert. I want it to be right now,” she said.

Gomez, who has been practicing since two weeks after the semester began, will be participating in an interpretation of Cerritos instructor and choreographer Phoenix Cole’s contemporary, modern ballet piece.

Gomez will be accompanied by 10 other Cerritos College students in the performance.

Students of all skill levels, beginning to advanced, will partake in the dance concert.

Janet Sanderson, Dance Department chair, further explained what she hopes the audience will capture at the concert.

“The faculty and students hope to entertain and inspire their audience to become interested in dance as a means of creative expression,” Sanderson said.

Proceeds of the concert will help with “costs, technical design, production staff, costumes, as well as other department events such as the American College Dance Festival, guest choreographers, and guest artists,” said Sanderson.