April 2, 2007, ST. LOUIS - Local dance artists - including several who have been treated for cancer - unite to present an evening of dance to benefit the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

"Moving Voices - An Evening of Dance" is Saturday, April 14 at 8 p.m. and Sunday April 15 at 4 p.m. at the Orthwein Theatre in the Bryant Arts Complex located on the campus of Mary Institute and Country Day School (MICDS), 101 N. Warson Road. The project is co-directed by Gail Wechsler, Dawn Karlovsky and Mary Ann Rund and involves several local choreographers who will each contribute one or two dance works for the concert.

"We envision this concert as a means of assisting the Siteman Cancer Center with all it does to promote cancer research," says Wechsler, who - like Rund - was treated for cancer at Siteman.

Tickets for the concert are $20. All money received from ticket sales and any other individual donations received in support of this concert will be donated directly to the Siteman Cancer Center.

Tickets may be purchased by credit card by calling the Barnard Health and Cancer Information Center at 314-362-7844. Tickets also may be purchased by check. To do so, send a check payable to "Siteman Cancer Center" and specify the date of the performance and the number of tickets requested. Put "Moving Voices" on the memo line of your check. Mail check orders to:

Siteman Cancer Center
Moving Voices-An Evening of Dance
7425 Forsyth Blvd.
Campus Box 1204
St. Louis, MO 63105

The co-directors each bring years of dance experience to the program.

Dawn Karlovsky teaches modern dance at Washington University in St. Louis and directs the yearly outdoor dance performance series called "Dine on Dance" every September. She also recently presented "Assemblage - Dawn Karlovsky and Dancers," a full evening concert featuring her choreography held at the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) this past spring. Ms. Karlovsky danced professionally with GASH/VOIGT Dance Theatre, and with companies in San Francisco, Louisville, KY, and Chicago.

Mary Ann Rund teaches at both MICDS and Washington University and has twenty years experience as a choreographer and performer. Ms. Rund danced professionally with GASH/VOIGT Dance Theatre and Burning Feet Dance Company in St. Louis. "Harvesting Grace" was a dance concert put together by Ms. Rund in 1999 to benefit the Arts as Healing program at the Siteman Cancer Center.

Gail Wechsler is a longtime student and performer of modern dance. She has performed professionally in several local concerts, including "Dance Now!" and "Assemblage," both at COCA.

For more information or directions to the concert location, please call 314-727-4453.