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ADF: Bill T. Jones’ Obscure Finish
The American Dance Festival closed its 84th season and celebratory 40th year in Durham with the final installment of Bill T. Jones and collaborators’ Analogy: A Trilogy on July 30 in the Durham...
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ADF: Bill T. Jones’ TRILOGY, part 1 (again)
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company performing Jones’ Analogy/Dora: Tramontane in the ADF presentation in the DPAC, July 27, 2017. Photo: Ben McKeown. Two years ago, Bill T. Jones brought the first...
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ADF: Big FOOTPRINTS
Advanced dancers from the ADF School performing Lucinda Childs’ Concerto in Reynolds Theater at ADF July 25, 2017. Photo: Ben McKeown. Please click through to read my review on CVNC.org. Scroll down...
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ADF: Mark Morris Dance Group with the Durham Symphony & NC Master Chorale
I reviewed the wonderful show on the 21st for CVNC.org. If you need some fully integrated dance and music, without a single spoken word, this show’s for you. Repeats July 22, 7 p.m., in the DPAC. Click...
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ADF @ The Nasher: Yossi Berg and Oded Graf
When you go to see a dance, do you expect to be able to actually see it? Yeah, me too. What about a seat, do you want a seat for an hour-long performance? How about a back on that seat? Yep, that would...
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ADF: Paul Taylor Dance Company, testing survival strategies
The Paul Taylor Dance Company, Heather McGinley, center, performing Taylor’s Cascade at ADF in the DPAC, 7/7/17. Photo: Ben McKeown. Paul Taylor has been one of the greatest dance makers of all time,...
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ADF: Pilobolus–with Banjos
Whether you’ve never seen the ever-regenerating dance troupe Pilobolus, or you’ve seen them so many times that you think you’re done–this is a very good year to watch the company at the American Dance...
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ADF: Story Fragments
The American Dance Festival has been a little short of dancing so far this year, and although it is composed of movement, the current program by Beth Gill, Brand New Sidewalk, doesn’t remedy that lack...
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ADF: Cherdonna
Cherdonna performing Clock That Mug or Dusted at the Living Arts Collective as part of ADF Out of the Box. Photo: Ben McKeown. Cherdonna Shinatra‘s ADF performance Saturday was along the general...
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ADF: Catch Up
Hillel Kogan (r) and Adi Boutrous performed We Love Arabs for the American Dance Festival at Reynolds Theater on Duke University’s campus in Durham, N.C. on Friday, Jun. 16, 2017. Photo: Ben McKeown....
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ADF: Tommy Noonan’s JOHN
The American Dance Festival’s presented Tommy Noonan in his work JOHN, in Shaefer Theater, June 18, 2017. Photo: Ben McKeown. Taste in art is so personal that almost any artwork will have its...
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It’s HAPPY HOUR: ADF 2017 is Open
Anna Bass, left, and Monica Bill Barnes in HAPPY HOUR. Photo: Grant Halverson. I don’t know much about office parties or happy hours, and what I have known is pretty dreary. Not so with the crazy...
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RAD’s boneGlow at Living Arts Collective
RAD dancers Lucas Melfi, Nicole Lawson, Rachel Mehaffey and Allie Pfeffer in boneGlow, choreographed by Renay Aumiller in conjunction with them. Photo: Jen Guy Metcalf. Warning: when artist you admire...
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Orbiting in the Outer Reaches
Carley McCready in the cosmic static. Rehearsal photo courtesy of Rabble and Twine. I was thrilled to received a press release from DIDA, Durham Independent Dance Artists, giving information on a new...
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Martha Graham Dance Company, Updated, at CPA
A moment from Martha Graham’s frolicking Maple Leaf Rag. Photo: Costas. The Martha Graham Dance Company, like the companies of several other of the great modern dance choreographers, is still...
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Glass # 3: DANCE with Lucinda Childs
Lucinda Childs Company in DANCE, with Sol LeWitt’s film of DANCE, set to Philip Glass’s DANCE I, Dance II, and Dance III. Photo: Sally Cohn. Will art last, or is it strictly of its time? That’s...
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Bait and Switch
The advance materials for a performance that will repeat today at 2 and 7 at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art show Thomas F. DeFrantz dancing. True, the photo shows him dancing in the Ninth Street Dance...
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Dancing on the barricades in HOME: the metamorphosis
The metamorphosis of my immediate downtown neighborhood absorbs my attention daily, so I was glad to see an artist and her collaborators take up the subject. Stephanie Leathers‘ HOME: the...
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CLEAR & SWEET, on the stage at CPA
A magical, exhilarating performance at Carolina Performing Arts on October 5 still has me resonating two days later. The work Clear & Sweet, by Seattle company zoe | juniper, was repeated on the...
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Successful 7: Gaspard & Dancers
The Gaspard & Dancers ensemble in their Portrait costumes, at play outside the Bryan Center, September 29, 2016. Photo courtesy Gaspard Louis. Since forming his company, Gaspard & Dancers,...
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