Give It Up, Turn It Loose! Theatre in the Park Through Aug. 10 It’s tempting to call Raleigh playwright Kim Moore’s Give It Up, Turn It Loose a collection of monologues that connects six characters we see on stage (and others that we don’t). But the word “disconnects” seems far more appropriate for a work […]
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David Hare’s Skylight at Raleigh’s Kennedy Theatre
Skylight 1/2 Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, Progress Energy Center Through August 3 With the dollar and the stock market plummeting, no one’s financial situation is that secure, and the middle class is continuing to erode. All of which makes it a particularly appropriate moment to revisit Skylight, David Hare’s 1995 drama that attempts […]
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The best and worst of American Dance Festival 2008
The lovers’ most heartfelt wish can be put into one word. Here it is: Stay. It’s no less true for those who deeply love the dance. Stay, Zvi Gotheiner, Laura Dean, Doug Varone and Takuya Muramatsu: choreographers who brought visions of darkness and light, stories of fearsome symmetry and equally fearsome chaos. Stay, Yukari Ota […]
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The Load Out (Part II): Suggested ADF Acts for 2009?
Cue the credits: This is our last scheduled post for 2008. We’ll still be around to screen, post and reply to your comments — to me and to each other — in the days and weeks ahead, so keep ’em coming. But for now, let’s go out with one last question: Who do you want […]
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008: Split Stages, Split Decisions (Part I)
What threatened to be “a year-long Festival of the Feet” when it was announced in March turned out better than we’d feared. For the most part. With some exceptions. This version of our comprehensive season wrap is verifiably our last word on ADF Season 2008. With 1,100 more words than the story in our print […]
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008: Split stages, split decisions (part II)
Part II of the 2008 Season Review is here. In this section: Reconstructions: Donald McKayle’s Games and Past/Forward‘s showings of Laura Dean, Hanya Holm and Erick Hawkins; a girlchild education of a different sort by Jiri Kylian; Maguy Marin’s umwelt; plus the new stuff — good, bad and ugly — by Mark Dendy, Larry Keigwin, […]
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008: Split stages, split decisions (part III)
The chilling finale of the 2008 Season Review is here. Considered in this section: Japanese Festival performances by Natural Dance Theatre and Dance Theatre LUDENS; strong work by ADF dance students; the Acts to Follow series devoted to North Carolina dance artists; and that jump to the left, coming up — when ADF moves some […]
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Actually, visiting choreographer Amanda Miller wasn’t part of that ADF MFA thesis performance…
. . . until her unprofessional conduct made her its momentary focal point. You know, I really prefer reviewing dance to reviewing members of the audience. Unfortunately, Miller’s left me little choice, given her own poorly improvised solo during an ADF MFA student’s thesis performance last Friday afternoon. A dance professional should have known — […]
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008 Coming Monday
Our final views — for now — on the ADF 2008 Season will run in next week‘s print edition of the Independent Weekly. But if you just can’t wait that long. . . . . . check back here Monday afternoon. P.S.: If you want to put your thoughts in on the best — and […]
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Exclusive footage: two Butoh world premieres Kochuten’s “gosh, I am alive…” Dai Rakuda Kan’s “Secrets of Mankind”
The headline says it all: exclusive footage of the new world premieres by Muramatsu’s Kochuten and Maro’s Dai Rakuda Kan at the American Dance Festival. Their final performance here: Thursday, July 17. Video produced for www.indyweek.com by Noreen Fagan.
