Campus Activities Board’s Fine Arts Committee will present four performances this semester which are sure to please fans of dance and music.

The first event, scheduled for Febuary 2, will be the appearance of Benedetto Lupo, bronze medalist of the eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Lupo began to study piano at the age of 6 and made his debut at the age of 13 playing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.

In addition to his prize at the Eighth Van Cliburn Competition, Lupo has won second prize at the 1985 Robert Casadesus International Competition and third prize in the 1986 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

On Febuary 21, Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo will perform. It is a company of male dancers performing the full range of the ballet and modern repertoire, including classical and original works in faithful renditions of the style, manners, and conceits of those dance styles.

The comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance.

The fact that men take all the parts, heavy bodies delicately balancing on toe as swans, sylphs, water spirtes, romantic princesses, and angst-ridden Victorian ladies, enhances, rather than mocks the spirit of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing the most knowledgeable, as well as novices, in the audience.

Garth Fagan’s Bucket Dance Theatre takes the stage on April 4. It has been said that Bucket Dancers do not look like any other dancers. Their distinctive movement quality comes from years of training in “Fagan technique,” the teacing method developed by company founder and artistic director Garth Fagan.

The New York Times stated, “Quick, rubbery, muscular, meditative, fluent and sharp—the Bucket’s dancers register sharper changes in dynamics and shape than any company on the boards. They are exciting performers committed to energy in its purest state.”

The company was cited for its excellence and originality by New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who honored the company with the New York Governor’s Arts Award.

The final event in the series will be the production of Michael Bennett’s “Dreamgirls,” taking place on April 19.

“Dreamgirls” is the story of an all black, all female singing group that rises from the ghetto to national fame and fortune during the 1960’s.

Like the Supremes, to which they bear more than a passing resemblance, the Dreams have their share of obstacles to overcome on their way up the entertainment ladder: broken families, love affairs, and lives.