Orange Coast College will stage its second annual Fiesta Latina celebration on campus on Thursday and Friday, May 3-4. Fiesta Latina is an OCC dance and cultural heritage outreach to Orange County's elementary schools and high schools- and to local adults. It's a colorful and energetic educational presentation, offering striking examples of Latin American culture, dance and music. A one-hour public performance is scheduled for Thursday evening, May 3, at 8 p.m. in OCC's Robert B. Moore Theatre. Sixty-minute performances for elementary and high school students are slated for Friday, May 4, at 10 a.m. and noon in the Moore Theatre .
All performances are free.
Artistic director for Fiesta Latina is OCC dance professor, Jose Costas, a native of Puerto Rico who spent nine years as principal dancer with Ballet Hispanico of New York. Ballet Hispanico has been widely recognized as the foremost dance interpreter of Hispanic culture in the United States. Costas joined OCC's faculty in 1999. Fiesta Latina, in its first year, had a profound impact on school audiences. The Fiesta Latina company features 13 student-dancers.