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HOT NOW–ADF dances in its own space
Under blazing skies, the American Dance Festival celebrates opening its very own building in Durham. Designed by BLOK Architecture and funded by ADF angel The SHS Foundation, the Broad Street building...
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ADF brings Monica Bill Barnes’ heart and soul revue to Reynolds
Monica Bill Barnes & Company perform EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME. That’s Barnes front left, with the smile and the soaring lines. Photo: Christopher Duggan, courtesy of ADF. Monica...
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A first time for everything: disappointing Pilobolus at ADF
THIS REVIEW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE ARTERY, WWW.INDYWEEK.COM, JULY 6, 2012. GO HERE TO VIEW THE ORIGINAL, WITH FRESH PHOTOS BY SAM TRULL, OR, READ ON BELOW. Pilobolus did not look like this at...
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Beautiful Bharatanatyam: Ragamala Dance at ADF
Ragamala dancers. Photo: Ed Bock, courtesy of ADF. “Ragamala, a South Indian Bharatanatyam dance company from Minneapolis, turns the Reynolds Theater stage into a mesmerizing village in Sacred Earth,...
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Ride Vertigo’s Stupendous Tilt-a-Whirl at the American Dance Festival
Vertigo, airborne. Photo: Gadi Dagon, courtesy of ADF. “This is going to be a short review. It can be summed up succinctly: Vertigo Dance Company lets loose most dynamic dancing of the American Dance...
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Perpetual Motion for Its Own Sake: Brian Brooks Moving Company at ADF
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 7/17/12 IN THE ARTERY AT INDYWEEK.COM. From DESCENT. Photo: Christopher Duggan, courtesy of ADF. Brian Brooks makes a big production out of very little material. He choreographs...
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UNDIVIDED DIVIDED: Shen Wei @ Home with ADF @ NC Museum of Art
A slim man of unusual grace glides silently through the quiet clusters of art-viewers at the North Carolina Museum of Art, pausing here and there to contemplate the work-in-progress spread through...
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Michael Trusnovec leads inspired dancing as ADF hosts Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor always puts together programs that juxtapose his dances in ways that allow his ideas to rub up against each other. They are as carefully composed as a gallery of paintings, curated along...
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Footprints Lead to Nothing in Irksome ADF Program
“I’ve seen some things I hated at the American Dance Festival over the years. Most of them weren’t bad art: They ran counter to my tastes and philosophies. This week’s ADF program in Reynolds Theater,...
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Just One Night Left: Mark Morris Closes ADF 2012
Mark Morris Dance Group in “Festival Dance.” Photo: Stephanie Berger, courtesy of ADF. The American Dance Festival closes its 2012 performance season this weekend at the Durham Performing Arts Center,...
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ADF Takes A.I.M to DPAC: Kyle Abraham’s Stunning Style Goes Big
Kyle Abraham, who appeared for the first time last year at the American Dance Festival with his marvelous dance The Radio Show, is back this year with a two-performance run on the big stage at the...
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ADF: A Thrilling Premiere by LeeSaar The Company in Reynolds
LeeSaar The Company dancers in Grass and Jackals. Photo: Christopher Duggan. The American Dance Festival presented another world premiere of a work it had commissioned on June 30, when LeeSar The...
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Uh, haven’t I seen a lot of this before? Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company...
Hazard warnings: Too-loud sound; strobe lighting; way-much theatrical smoke; boredom. I know, the boredom is really unexpected. If you’ve seen Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company at the American Dance...
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Hot Dance–But I don’t wanna TALK about it! Camille A. Brown and Dancers at...
Camille A. Brown (front right) & Dancers in Mr. TOL E. RAncE. Photo: Christoper Duggan. A really interesting troupe is at the American Dance Festival this week, with a program that repeats again...
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Let Us Now Praise Terpsichore: Paul Taylor Company Returns to ADF
It’s been a tough week in Durham, depressing and humiliating, what with the sneaking Legislature, the obfuscating Governor, the precipitating weather and The New York Times editorial on the decline of...
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Remember Her With a Dance
A lovely lady who loved the dance died yesterday. Jacqueline Zinn became associated in my mind with the American Dance Festival years before I ever made her acquaintance–and that’s all we were,...
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Prancing in The Showroom with ponydance: ADF @ Motorco
ponydance in the grappling stage of their How Did It All Go Right? At Motorco, 7/17/13. Photo: Grant Halverson, courtesy ADF. Comedy dance theater is a rare thing. Possibly it is unique to the Irish...
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Components Inseparable: Beautiful Trisha Brown Dance Program at ADF
I go to so much performance because it feeds the ravening aesthetic beast in me that is rarely satiated. Yet occasionally there’s a night at the theater like an orchestrated feast, refined and...
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Footprints: 3 New Commissions as ADF 2013 Begins Its Final Week
From Adele Myers’ The Dancing Room. Photo: Grant Halverson. Make Believe by Rosie Herrera, The Dancing Room by Adele Myers, and Gates, by Vanessa Voskuil, all commissioned by the American Dance...
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Moonglow and Fireworks: ADF’s 80th Season Closes Tonight
At the beginning, it seems so luxuriously long. But each year on the final weekend, the American Dance Festival season feels painfully short. The ADF’s 80th season–its 36th in Durham–ends tonight at...
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