LAKEPORT – At this time of year, dancers are ready to begin showing the results of their work over the winter. Across the country, there are dance festivals in the spring, in those areas lucky enough to have enough dancers, dance groups, and dance schools to put together a good two-hour show.

On May 2 and 3, Lake County's own long-lived Spring Dance Festival will be held, with 130-plus dancers doing 38 dance numbers.

Performances will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 2, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at the Marge Alakszay Center, 350 Lange Street, in Lakeport. Doors will open a half-hour before each performance.

The county is blessed to have a real wealth of dance talent and great opportunities for that talent to be nurtured and presented. There are schools and groups for young talent and for mature dancers; for clogging and for ballet; for belly dance and for ballroom; for hula and for hip-hop. This festival will have all of those represented, and more.

The crew has had a lot of experience producing this show. The lighting, sound and backstage teams have worked together many times now, and the performance ticks over like a watch. The dancers have been practicing these dances for months.

The presentation is dramatic on the great stage at the Marge Alakszay Center, and the entertainment energy quotient is as high as one can experience safely. Boring people will be on hand to restore you, if you become excessively entertained.

And since it is a benefit for the Lake County Arts Council, the tickets are not expensive. The best seats are only $15, and there are discounts for students, seniors and children, but all tickets are $1 more at the door.

To get tickets beforehand, you can go to Catfish Books in the Willow Tree Plaza or Wild About Books in Clearlake. To get the prime reserved seats, while there still are some, you have to go to the Main Street Gallery in Lakeport, where you can also get all those other tickets as well, and which you can call at 707-263-6658 for further information.