Back by popular demand, this year’s dance concert has been super-sized and spectacularized. Exploring the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins, Seton Hill’s dance and theatre design faculty collaborate with students on an original feast of music and movement that is pure performance gluttony. Thus spoke Pope Gregory the Great, “certain vices cloak themselves to our eyes under the garb of virtues, and come to us as it were with a smooth face...” Each of these seven smooth faces has launched a thousand slips that have inspired winners and sinners, writers and artists throughout time, including the likes of Dante, Bosch, Brecht, and the Seton Hill Theatre. Follow these footsteps if you dare. But beware – there’s a fine fiery line between inspiration, temptation, damnation.

Seton Hill students to perform in “The Seven Deadly Sins: Vice and Virtue in Music and Movement” are: Laura Barron of Grove City, Pa., Juistina Chiappelli of Penfield, Pa., Jessica Florian of Washington, Pa., Adriana Gissendanner of Clairton, Pa., Emily Heinicka of Irwin, Pa., Jeanette Lundell of Sewickley, Pa., Jennifer Makowski of New Kensington, Pa., Natalie Moretti of Cheswick, Pa., Erik Ortiz of New York, N.Y., Elizabeth Serra of Latrobe, Pa., Laura Stracko of Nazareth, Pa., J.T. White of New Windsor, Md., and Darcy Wood of Orlando Fla. Each will fill a variety of roles, representing the seven deadly sins: wrath, envy, gluttony, avarice, lust, sloth, and pride.

Nate Errett of West Huntingdon, Pa., and Victoria Serra of Latrobe, Pa., are the understudies for the performance of “The Seven Deadly Sins: Vice and Virtue in Music and Movement.”

TaMara Swank, Seton Hill assistant professor of theatre and co-coordinator of the Seton Hill University Dance Academy, is director and choreographer for “The Seven Deadly Sins.”

Performances: November 30 and December 1 – 8:00 p.m., December 2 – 2:00 p.m., December 4 and 5 – 10:30 a.m., December 6 – 8:00 p.m.

Ticket and Venue Information: All performances are in Reeves Theatre, ground floor, Reeves Memorial Library on Seton Hill’s campus. Seton Hill University is located on Route 130 West in Greensburg, Pa. Reeves Theatre is a disabled accessible and climate-controlled facility. Parking is free. Single admission tickets are $12 for all ages, all performances. Single admission for Seton Hill students is $5. Groups of 16 or more, with reservations and advance payment, are $10 each. Student rush tickets (available five minutes before curtain to any student with a valid school ID) are $5, subject to availability. Order tickets by phone: 724-838-4241, by e-mail: boxoffice@setonhill.edu or by mail: Theatre Box Office, Seton Hill University, Box 492, 1 Seton Hill Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601-1599.

The Seton Hill University Theatre Program has a long history of educating theatre majors for careers in the professional theatre while playing a vital role in the educational life of the campus. Seton Hill’s Theatre Program offers four full-length productions (as well as a number of shorter works) each year that generate audiences of over 3,500 and speak to topics addressed in courses across Seton Hill’s curriculum. For more information on the Theatre Program at Seton Hill, please visit www.setonhill.edu or call 724-830-0300.