Kinetic Expressions 2000, an evening of contemporary dance, will be presented Friday, Feb. 25 and Sat., Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. in the McGaw Theatre of the Jelkyl Drama Center at Berea College. The concerts are being presented by the College's Modern Dance Troupe and offer works by student and faculty choreographers.

Faculty choreographers Stephanie Browner, Stephanie Clark, Roy Scudder-Davis, Susan Spalding and Stephanie Woodie and students LaShaundra Thedford, Jacqueline Price, Oana Sirbiou, Katie Racz, Syreeta Pratt, Natasha Hood and Sara Douthitt, have created an evening's program in which contrasts abound.

In Browner's "Ardent Quartz," performed to music by Laurie Anderson, waves of dancers pass across the stage, leaving one and then another behind, then lifting and supporting one another. A dance by Scudder-Davis is based in cool, elegant night life, while Woodie's dancers form and re-form groups and hurdle energetically through space.

Two of the student dances were choregraphed during the College's recent short term class "Making Dances."

Admission is free for Berea College students and $5 for non-students. For ticket information, call the Theatre Box Office at 606-985-3478.