Beginning dancers will soon get a first hand look at the art of professional dance. Fifty beginning dance students will take a field trip to see the show Ballet Hispanico, performed by the nation’s leading Latino dance organization, at the Mesa Art Center on Sept 17.

“I think it’s going to be really fun to go and see and a good experience,” freshman Evelyn Nielsen says about the trip.

Ballet Hispanicos performs shows that “explore the diversity of Latino culture through a fusion of classical, Latin, and contemporary dance powered by theatricality, athleticism, and passion,” (ballethispanico.org). The company has performed all over the world in 11 countries and three separate continents.

For many students, this will be their first time attending a professional dance show. Freshman Catherine Huynh, for example, says “I’m really excited to go see [Ballet Hispanico] cause it’s…one of my first actual dances I’ve actually seen.”

Beginning dance teacher Keddi Murrish wants her students to have the experience of going to see renowned professional dancers in order to take away that ballet doesn’t have to be “this strict perfect type of ballet that they’re learning.”

“They’re learning classical but this is going to be contemporary modern ballet with Latin dance mixed in,” Murrish expounds. “I [also] hope they will recognize a lot of ballet movement that they’ve been learning in class,” Murrish adds.