Though this is the first time that it has canceled a season in 42 years in Durham, ADF has been overcoming unforeseen obstacles since the beginning.
Linda Belans
Posted inTheater
“The EVE Project” Gives Martha Graham’s Poses of Power to the People
Artistic director Janet Eilber discusses why she has such a populist stance on the modern dance icon and what it was like to work with a legend.
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Motherhood, Memory, and Mortality in Eiko Otake’s “The Duet Project”
Snow drifts over the procession. Onlookers line the path. White flakes slowly blanket their umbrellas, the wooden box, and the people who carry it. Eiko walks in mourner’s cadence among them. It is scored by silence.
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Fall-ternative: Dance
Ballet in The Independent? Seems an oxymoron given the fringier focus of the Indy‘s arts lens. And until Carolina Ballet made its Triangle debut three years ago, I wouldn’t have paid much attention either. I had become a modern dance devotee over the 30-plus years of writing about democracy’s dance. Ballet, the aristocratic art form, […]