Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Starting next Tuesday, choreographers and dancers descend on the University of South Florida for the annual Florida Dance Festival, a summer dance school that boasts an intensive series of performances open to the public at bargain ticket prices. The full line-up stretches through June 26, but Tuesday’s inaugural performance—featuring Arch Dance Company—is sure to be a highlight. The Brooklyn-based group, which has performed at New York’s Lincoln Center and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, combines hip-hop and modern dance.

Other offerings include “Florida Dances,” a compilation of works by Florida-based or affiliated artists; “Disavowal,” a performance by David Dorfman Dance of New York, inspired by the biography of abolitionist John Brown; and a festival finale showcasing work choreographed by festival faculty and performed by students. All performances take place at USF’s School of Theatre and Dance except for “Hello Dalí” by Sarasota’s Fuzión Dance Artists, a multimedia tribute to the art of surrealist Salvador Dalí, staged at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Pete. (Pictured: Fuzión Dance Artists perform “Hello, Dali”. Photo by Gini Smith)

This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2010.