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New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 3, 2002 - The Iona College Council on the Arts will present Barrio Girl: A Life Through Dance on Friday, Oct. 25 at 7 pm in the Arrigoni Center on the main campus, located at 715 North Avenue in New Rochelle. This event is open to the public and admission is $5.

Dancer/Choreographer Sandra Rivera will perform the 60-minute autobiographical solo dance, depicting the life of a Puerto Rican girl growing up in New York's El Barrio with dreams of becoming a professional dancer. Barrio Girl includes modern, Spanish and Puerto Rican folk dance movements to live accompaniment woven with words. Rivera is an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Omega Dance Company.

The Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program awarded Rivera a grant to write, choreograph and perform the piece. First performed in 2000 at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center Theater in East Harlem, Barrio Girl was produced by Buffalo's Pick of the Crop Dance Company as its annual New Moves project in July 2001.

Please call 637-7796 for more information or visit www.iona.edu/artscouncil. All Iona College Council on the Arts programs are sponsored through the generosity of JoAnn and Joseph M. Murphy and the Baron Lambert Fund.

Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, co-educational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education. Iona offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous post graduate certificate programs.

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For questions or more information please contact:
Meghan Finn
Public Relations Office
Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801
tel: 914 633-2005 fax: 914 637-2711

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