LEWISTON — The F.A.B. Winter Dance Showcase returns for its 13th year with several performances by artists from all over Maine and across the country. The spectacular show begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at L/A’s Gendron Franco Center, 46 Cedar St. The event is sponsored by the Franco Center and Bates College. For more information, call 207-783-1585.

The doors and the bar open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for students.

The event represents an ongoing effort to provide opportunities for regional dance artists to present dance works in central Maine, as well as an opportunity for local audiences to have access to contemporary dance works. Visually stunning and kinetically mesmerizing, this event combines classic and modern dance pieces in L/A’s most magnificent performance hall.

“This fertile partnership between the Franco Center in Lewiston and the Bates College dance program has presented over 140 dance works over the course of 12 concerts,” says Mitch Thomas, executive director at the center, “We are happy to learn that Bangor Ballet is one of the several companies chosen to participate in F.A.B. this year.”