BRUNSWICK — From ballet and modern to African-American diasporic dance, Bowdoin College’s “December Dance Concert” on Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 will celebrate the power of movement.

The program includes a new choreography by Gwyneth Jones designed for five dancers and five architectural boxes. The bodies and objects create evocative patterns in space to familiar tunes, including “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover” and “Shortenin’ Bread.”

Dance student Natalie Johnson will present excerpts from “Pillow Talk with Dionysus,” her independent study in choreography, which explores unity in individualism, expressivity in abstraction and catharsis through creation.

Students in the college’s African-American diasporic dance class will take the audience around the globe with a welcoming song from Nigeria featuring Portland-based percussionists, a ritual jazz funeral from New Orleans and the jive of the Harlem-born Lindy Hop. The students complete the journey with the urban energy of a hip-hop vignette.

Pianist George Lopez, artist-in-residence at Bowdoin, will perform a selection of John Cage’s solos for prepared piano for “Arid Spaces,” a ballet for 12 dancers. The dancers glide, strike and jump — moving to sudden musical shifts and integrating classical and contemporary styles.

The show, appropriate for all ages, will be presented at 8 p.m. at Pickard Theater in Memorial Hall at Bath Road and Maine Street. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at David Saul Smith Union information desk (725-3375) and immediately before the show at the Pickard/Wish box office.