RESCHEDULED: Columbia City Ballet Brings Evening of Excerpts from Favorite Shows to Claflin University

Columbia City Ballet will present excerpts from Dracula, The Nutcracker and Jonathan Green’s Off the Wall & Onto the Stage at Claflin University on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Columbia City Ballet, under the artistic direction of William Starrett, is a professional company with 30 paid dancers and more than 2,000 season members. It produces what critics have described as “some of the highest-quality cultural entertainment in the Southeast.” More information can be found at www.columbiacityballet.com.

This Lyceum Series event will begin at 7 p.m. in Moss Auditorium of the W.V. Middleton Fine Arts Center on the Claflin campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Columbia City Ballet performance is just one of the events celebrating Claflin University’s 145^th anniversary. Also on the calendar are:

• March 24, 2015 – The First Lady’s Hats and Gloves Tea. Tullis Arena, Jonas T. Kennedy Health and Physical Education Center.
• April 6-12, 2015 – CALA~Bash, Claflin’s Arts and Letters Annual Bash.
• April 8, 2015 – Alonzo Webster Wright Lyceum Event. Moss Auditorium, W.V. Middleton Fine Arts Center.
• April 9-12, 2015 – Claflin University International Alumni Convention. Orangeburg, S.C.
• May 8, 2015 – Baccalaureate Service. Tullis Arena, Jonas T. Kennedy Health and Physical Education Center.
• May 9, 2015 – Commencement Convocation. South Atlantic Seventh Day Adventist Convention Center, Orangeburg, S.C.