Saturday, May 31 & Sunday, June 1
Buffalo Gals Bring Home New Works

Thirteen “Buffalo gals” come out this weekend, when Pick of the Crop Dance presents Buffalo Gals Bring Home New Works. The dancers, all native Buffalonians fresh from graduating from top dancing studios across the country, return to their roots and their mentor, Pick of the Crop’s artistic director Elaine Gardner, to perform a fitting tribute to Buffalo’s rich talent. Pick of the Crop has been providing the Western New York area with concert dance performances—as well as nurturing local dancers’ creativity through Gardner’s intensive summer dance workshops—for over 25 years. This performance will showcase the performers’ technical skills as dancers and as choreographers, featuring pieces by guest choreographers Colin Connor, Patricia Farkas-Sprague, Marcus Schulkind, and Elizabeth Streb. The dancers themselves, returning to Buffalo for this show from places like Boston, LA, and New York, are Angela Buccini (pictured), Katie Dorn, Raija Gershberg, Alisa Mittin, Makenzi Rasey, Bridget Rochester, Katie Schwartz, Kirsta Sendziak, Mary Grace Sullivan, Bonnie Taylor, Molly Taylor, Brittini Whiting, and Jessica Wright.

—erin crabtree

Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 2pm. Flickinger Theater, Nichols School, 1250 Amherst Street (poc.org). $15