As always, our ADF Season Wrap, with critical commentary and conclusions on the best — and the worst — from the 2007 main stage and side stage series and showings will run during the next two issues of the Independent, on July 25 and August 1. We will post them here as well — maybe […]
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The Independent Review: Paul Taylor’s “De Sueños (Of Dreams)”:The sleep of reason…
“I’ve seen tattoos with more character development than much of Mr. Taylor’s choreography in his new work last Saturday night.” Ouch. Our critic tags Taylor with “characterization by costume” in a review that asks, “When the costume designer and musicians do most of the heavy lifting, what’s left for the choreographer?” Read the screed and […]
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ADF: Paul Taylor’s De Suenos
Paul Taylor Dance Company De Sueños (Of Dreams) American Dance Festival In the theater it’s sometimes called “characterization by costume.” It is anything but a professional compliment. The term describes a show in which a performer’s clothes are actually giving us more information about the character they’re playing than their acting istheir speech, stage presence […]
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ADF: Krapp’s gross content
American Dance Festival Argentine Festival I: Grupo Krapp, Olympica Compañia Contenido Bruto, Kevental In dim light, Luciana Acuña stealthily makes her way across stage at the opening of the U.S. premiere of Olympica by Grupo Krapp. After she passes by an upright pianoalready something of a non-sequitur as it stands, alone, on an athletic track […]
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For five years, Hidden Voices has used theater to help marginalized communities be heard
“I didn’t realize how little all of our different communities know about each other,” Lynden Harris says. On the sunny patio of a Hillsborough coffeehouse, the Hidden Voices executive artistic director pauses to reflect on five years of carefully listening toand just as carefully stagingthe real-life stories of so many, first in theaters and other […]
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The Independent Review: Argentine Mini-Festival, Part I:”Krapp’s Gross Content: Argentines fixateon past stories, theories, amusements”
From this week’s Independent: ‘Usually, when foreign companies appear at ADF, they shed considerable light on the present. Their work discloses how contemporary and experimental dance have developed under different conditions in different cultures, and how they address those cultures’ present concerns.” ‘Though it was unintentional, to be sure, Thursday night’s performancesand particularly the post-show […]
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Skaggs/Eno “Dances for Airports”:Tonight at 8:45 p.m.
From the online weekly calendar this morning: Sarah Skaggs’ Dances for Airports runs tonight in Schaefer Theater (one floor beneath Reynolds Theater), between the two Australian performances, at 8:45 p.m. For detailed background info on the project, click here. (And for our coverage of the artist’s first three attempts to give her final M.F.A. performance, […]
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Skaggs’ artistic flight encounters further delay
“May I have your attention? This is an announcement for all passengers still waiting to board Sarah Skaggs‘ Dances for Airports, originally scheduled for takeoff from Duke’s Schaefer Theater, Saturday, July 7 at 6:45 p.m., initially rescheduled for that evening at 8:30 p.m., and then subsequently rescheduled for Monday, July 9 at 8:30 p.m.” “A […]
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RESCHEDULED: Skaggs/Eno “Dances for Airports”reset (again) for 8:30 p.m. Monday
There we were: two hundred or so of the dance cognoscenti, waiting eagerly outside Schaefer Theater, mere moments before the 6:45 p.m. showing of Sarah Skaggs’ Dances for Airports. That’s when the fire alarm went off. When the (stage) smoke had cleared, Skaggs’ final performance had to be rescheduled — at the fire marshal’s insistance […]
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Tonight: Sarah Skaggs meets Brian Eno in “Dances for Airports”
Sarah Skaggs was already at work on Dances for Airports when we interviewed her during a residency in Raleigh in March, 2003. The contemplated piece constituted a definite departure from previous hyperkinetic works like Prelude for Salome. At the time, she cited a recent re-recording of Brian Eno‘s early exploration of ambient music, Music for […]
