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Gaspard & Dancers Give Powerful Concert at Duke; repeats October 19
Gaspard Louis, the Haitian-born dancer and choreographer who settled in Durham in 2009, presented his first Gaspard & Dancers annual concert that year. It was successful in a mild sort of...
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ADF: One Duet, One Dastardly Duo
The American Dance Festival has presented two small-scale programs this season away from its main series venues of Reynolds Theater and the Durham Performing Arts Center. The first, which I had thought...
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ADF: Adele Myers and Dancers’ Happy Physics
Adele Myers Dancers near the end of Myers’ Einstein’s Happiest Thought, in Reynolds Theater, June 30, 2014. Photo: Grant Halverson, ©ADF. Adele Myers and Dancers, who opened their 3-day run in...
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ADF: A Dark Night with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Crystal Pite’s Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, performed by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Photo: Sharen Bradford. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will return to the Durham Performing Arts Center...
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ADF: Ballet Preljocaj
Ballet Preljocaj. Photo:©JC Carbonne. The Durham production features other dancers. The seriously wonderful French company Ballet Preljocaj takes the stage again tonight as the American Dance...
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ADF: Double-Down Day at the Festival
Each year towards the end of the summer performance season of the American Dance Festival, some of the teaching faculty at the ADF School present a concert of their own works. Some of them dance;...
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ADF: Tere O’Connor Dance, part 1
From Sister. Tere O’Connor Dance’s Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson in the venerable Ark on Duke’s East Campus, July 13, 2014. Photo: Grant Halverson, ©ADF. I had my introduction to the work of...
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ADF: Tere O’Connor, part 2
The dances are studded with moments that seem like drawings on the stage. This is one from poem, July 15, 2014, Reynolds Theater. Photo: Grant Halverson, ©ADF. Tere O’Connor Dance presented two...
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ADF: Paul Taylor: Dance Until You Drop
The Paul Taylor Dance Company in Marathon Cadenzas. Photo: Paul B. Goode. Leaving the annual American Dance Festival presentation of the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Durham Performing Arts Center...
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ADF: Four Choreographers Dance ON THEIR BODIES
Ronald K. Brown. Photo courtesy of ADF. An artist stands alone before the blank page. A choreographer stands alone on a blank stage. Any mark is possible. The infinitude of choice paralyzes. But the...
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ADF: Footprints–follow those tracks–and then th-th-that’s all, folks, until 2015
Leonie McDonagh takes her dancers over the top in her Footprints dance. Photo: Brian Farrell. The well-programmed 2014 American Dance Festival performance season comes to a close this weekend with...
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Eiko: Rare Opportunity to See (and Hear) the Great Dance Artist
TODAY, July 2, at 5:00, Eiko Otake, the female half of the duo Eiko and Koma, frequent visitors to the American Dance Festival, will be present at a special salon at Pleiades Gallery in downtown...
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Buoyant Paul Taylor Program Will Repeat Tonight and Saturday at ADF
Manet’s Woman with a Dish of Plums. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. I’ve heard people say, “oh, I’ve seen Paul Taylor,” as if once or twice or three times was really enough. Well, I’ve seen...
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Eiko Solo, at ADF through July 12
Eiko Otake dancing the Cordoba Center for the Arts iteration of A BODY IN PLACES, her new series of solo works. At ADF through July 12. Photo: Grant Halverson. Eiko and Koma. Of all the riches laid so...
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MONCHICHI, Je t’adore: Company Wang Ramirez Lights Up Reynolds
Before I say anything else: If you didn’t see Monchichi, the utterly charming work by Company Wang Ramirez, on one of the first two nights of its three-night run in Reynolds Theater as ADF continues,...
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ANALOGY/DORA: TRAMONTANE– ADF Presents Bill T. Jones’ New Work Again 7/11/15...
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performing Analogy/Dora: Tramontane at ADF, 7/10/15. Photo: Grant Halverson. Bill T. Jones is one of the most intellectual artists working in dance, with...
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One More Night for Zvidance’s Thrilling DABKE at ADF
Zvidance performing DABKE at ADF 2015. Photo: Grant Halverson. One of the coolest things about attending the entire American Dance Festival is that the thinking of the festival planners begins to...
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The Cubans are Here!
The American Dance Festival and the Carolina Theatre of Durham co-present Ballet Folklórico Cutumba, from Santiago de Cuba It’s something I didn’t expect to happen in my lifetime. The invisible wall...
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Tracks in the Sand
First, let me quickly say that this is the final week of ADF 2015, and tonight is the final night of the Footprints program (8 pm, Reynolds Theater). This is the cool program for which ADF commissions...
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Following Footprints at ADF
The American Dance Festival that many of us locals tend to think of as a glorious 6-week binge of dance performances is in actuality so much more. The Festival, for its participants, is a time and...
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