A full program of theater, music and art offerings from Seminole State College of Florida’s   Center for Fine and Performing Arts is on tap for the fall arts season. With dance, jazz, holiday favorites and more on the menu, there’s a little something for everyone to enjoy this season.

Theater

Esencia

Esencia will feature performances by Flamenco del Sol dancers directed and choreographed by Tammy Weber de Millar. Flamenco dancing evolved in caves, so the atmosphere of Le Petit Théâtre on Seminole State’s Sanford/Lake Mary Campus is just the right setting for Esencia – an immersive journey to the caves of Sacromonte where flamenco music, dance and poetry mingle in an intimate venue. The passionate, percussive dance form that Weber de Millar teaches evolved in the south of Spain and Andalucia, with its deepest roots in the Sacromonte district of Granada in or near hillside caves historically populated by gypsies – more properly known as the Roma people. Performances are Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 1 at 2 p.m.  

Black Comedy

Le Petit Théâtre will also feature  Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer Nov. 3-5 and 10-12, with Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday performances at 2 p.m.

In Black Comedy, lovesick and desperate sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d’arte “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next door, hoping to impress his fiancée’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.

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