American Dance Festival: Garden: Retreat Lisa Race Rushes Pilobolus Insiders know that the main-stage shows are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dance performances at ADF. All summer long, emerging professional choreographers and dancersand some who have long since emergedshow their works on the side stages of Duke’s West and East campuses. […]
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New this week: A Streetcar Named Desire; Dinner with Friends
A Streetcar Named Desire Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern Common Ground Theatre Through July 7 Which is more absurd, I wonder: Reframing Tennessee Williams’ classic as a cross between an inverse Pleasantville and the lurid zombie movie oeuvre (think a little George Romero, a little Wes Craven, with some Ed Wood to season)? Or placing […]
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Time passed…slowly…
…and you took in what there was in the presence of Eiko and Koma and Charian and Peace. Our words will be coming shortly. In the meantime: please leave your first responses to Grain and the world premiere of Quartet here, in Comments.
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This just in: Argentine Festival is a “Go”
ADF associate director Jodee Nimerichter announced Monday afternoon that the Argentine festival of performances is back on the schedule for the 2007 American Dance Festival. The week of performances by five companies and choreographers slated for July 5-10 was suddenly endangered last week when Marca Argentina, an Argentine government agency, informed ADF on June 19 […]
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Lisa Race and the ballroom of our common loss; Inbal Pinto, Pilobolus and the dream operator
If you make tracks you can catch one of these on Saturday night, when Pilobolus closes its 2007 ADF stand with what is easily the strongest work we’ve seen from them in years. That would be the world premiere of Rushes, Robby Barnett’s collaboration with Israel’s Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. As the sound of […]
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Feedback: Pilobolus concert and Vicario’s I Cannot Escape Being Me So That Is What I’ll Show You
The same night Inbal Pinto‘s collaboration with the Pils had its world premiere, ADF faculty member and MFA student Antonietta Vicario‘s company showed their edgy trio on the performance of female identity and sexuality in a late night performance, at the venerable Ark. What did you think of what you saw — in either venue? […]
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This just in…
Insiders know that the mainstage shows are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dance performances at ADF. All summer long, emerging professional choreographers and dancers are showing their works, on side stages on Duke’s West and East campuses. And the price is right: most of the performances are free. We’ve been following […]
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The Independent Review: Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater
In today’s Independent: Byron Woods’ thoughts on “outsider” modern danceand Olga Pona’s latest works. Read on (and comment at the end)… The Outsiders? A Russian choreographer’s attempts to come in from the cold by Byron Woods Russian Festival: Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater (3 1/2 out of 5 stars) American Dance Festival It’s been suggested that […]
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress; The Full Monty
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Kenan Theater, UNC-CH Through July 1 I really wish I only had to talk about the design and adaptation of Rob Hamilton’s new show. On those levels, his version of Dai Sijie’s enchanting 2000 novel is basically unassailable. Indeed, many have justifiably respected Hamilton’s talents for years now in […]
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ADF: Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater
American Dance Festival Russian Festival: Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater It’s been suggested that Olga Pona’s choreography constitutes modern dance’s version of outsider art. She began at the dawn of the 1990s in the eastern Russian industrial district of Chelyabinsk, 100 miles north of the Kazakhstan border. With no knowledge of modern dance, she and her […]
