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Lux Aeterna: Doug Varone and Dancers Close a Brilliant Season at ADF
Just one more night for the 2015 edition of the American Dance Festival. The 82nd season closes as it began, with kinetic consideration of the relationships between painting and dance, or said another...
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Maximum Affect: Hubbard Street Dances Forsythe at ADF
This is a Hubbard Street Dance Chicago year at the American Dance Festival, and seeing them last night at the Durham Performing Arts Center brought two hours of solace, wonder and joy on a very bad no...
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Lar Lubovitch at ADF: Beyond Beauty lies the Sublime
Attila Joey Csiki and Tobin Del Cuore in Lar Lubovitch’s Concerto Six Twenty-two. At ADF, 7/11/16. Photo: Grant Halverson. I’m addicted to beauty. I need it like I need freedom, and rarely can I get...
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What it was, was a Happening: Koma Out of the Box at ADF
Koma Otake dancing in his solo work, The Ghost Festival in the 21c Museum Hotel. ADF Out of the Box, 7/12/16. Photo: Grant Halverson. The American Dance Festival has teamed up with the 21c Museum...
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The Russians are Here: Provincial Dances Theatre at ADF
Anastasiia Sokolova coming out of the tree in Maple Garden by Tatiana Baganova, danced by her troupe, Provincial Dances Theatre at ADF, 7/14/16. Photo: Grant Halverson. Read my full review here on...
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Unsung Heroines? Rioult Dance New York at the American Dance Festival
Even while looking forward to another interpretation of three interrelated Greek legends, I was irritated before the program began. Pascal Rioult has titled his trilogy (the final piece of which is an...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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