Choreographers’ Showcase is a rare opportunity for high school dancers to learn and perform with critically acclaimed choreographers. The performance brings world-renowned choreographers, and their original works, to the Learning Corridor's Theater of the Performing Arts, in Hartford.

This year, the Academy welcomes the following featured choreographers:

• Authorized stager Billy Smith for the Mark Morris Dance Group

• New York-based Tendayi Kuumba, a Dance Magazine Top 25 to watch

• New York-based SYREN Modern Dance directed by Lynn Peterson & Kate Sutter

• Director, Choreographer and Circus Artist Tandy Beal, with staging by Peter Kyle

• Dancer and Mime Lotte Gosslar, with staging from Jeanne Giroir, Thomas Giroir & John Simone