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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: Coming Up June 23-27
Lucas Melfi and Rachael Mehaffey in an earlier performance of Natalie Marrone’s Thresh, which will be the opening act in Reynolds June 23-24. Photo: Alec Himwich. The American Dance Festival...
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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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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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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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Paul Taylor Dance Company Closes ADF 2016 (a love note to Micheal Trusnovec)
The 83rd season of the American Dance Festival closes tonight, with the last performance, by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, beginning at 7 p.m. in the DPAC, where there was a very good house last night...
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WALK in The Gardens with Vanessa Voskuil: More ADF Footprints
The American Dance Festival 2016’s Footprints program was bifurcated this time, with the second part occurring in Duke Gardens July 28-30. Part Two, featuring a work by Vanessa Voskuil, takes place in...
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Snazzy Socks Kick Off FOOTPRINTS, in ADF’s Final Week
The student ensemble in Dafi Albtabeb’s IT’S NOW. IT’S NEVER, in the ADF Footprints program, 7/25/16. Photo: Grant Halverson. Sometimes the Footprints program, which occurs near the end of the...
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ADF Puts Company Wang Ramirez and Its WOW Factor on the Big Stage
Sebastien Ramirez in Borderline, at ADF 7/22/16. Photo: Grant Halverson. Company Wang Ramirez blew like a fresh clean wind into the ADF last season. This year they have returned with a darker work...
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Big Art in a Small Box: Trajal Harrell in Sheafer as ADF Continues
Trajal Harrell, left, with Ondrej Vidlar, performing in Duke’s Sheafer Theater, 7/19/16. Photo: Grant Halverson. Trajal Harrell is amazing. His work is so smart that watching it will probably make...
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