LEWISTON — The Franco-American Heritage Center and Bates College Dance Program will present the annual F.A.B. winter dance concert on Saturday, Feb. 12.

The concert represents an ongoing effort to provide opportunities for regional dance artists to present dance works and for local audiences to enjoy contemporary pieces.

Regional choreographers from across Maine and New England submit work, along with popular Bates student groups. This year, styles include contemporary ballet, Japanese butoh, contemporary modern dance and jazz.

Choreographers participating in the F.A.B. (Franco-American/Bates) event are Rebeca Laber-Smith and Robyn Nast, Zoe Eddy, Wendy E. Getchell, Lindsay Reuter, Heather Baur, Annie Kloppenberg, Nell Simpson, and Nancy Salmon.

Ohio-based Karl Rogers of David Dorfman Dance will offer a solo performed by Rachel Boggia, a dancer, choreographer and media artist who currently teaches at Bates.

Kloppenberg teaches and performs nationally as a member of Like You Mean It, an improvisational performing company. Eddy and Christopher Wilkins explore life and death, beauty and ugliness, decay and growth, and social isolation through  the experimental Japanese butoh form of dance.

Laber-Smith was director of choreography for an off-off Broadway version of “Chicago,” in which she played the part of Roxie Hart, and now choreographs regularly for the Portsmouth School of Ballet. 

Reuter has studied under Carol Dilley, Rachel Boggia and William Pope while attending Bates. She is writing her senior thesis about fire poi, a performance art indigenous to New Zealand.

The dance concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Franco center, 46 Cedar St. Tickets are $14, $12 for students and seniors. For tickets call 689-2000 or visitwww.francocenter.org.