Yeats’ prophecy made manifest
[Ed. note: Brian Howe, a widely ranging culture critic and reporter, writes frequently for the Independent Weekly and other publications.…
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So, how do you critically talk about a "masterpiece"?
It is an easy -- and a thoroughly useless -- thing to be intimidated into silence or critical complicity by a "masterpiece."New audiences and critics may be mindful of the meanings an artwork has been...
View ArticleMartha Graham's "Steps in the Streets" Introduction by Janet Eilber
Excerpts in this video preview from Martha Graham Dance Company's performance of Steps in the Streets at the 2008 ADF. The opening introduction is by the company's artistic director, Janet Eilber.…
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SUNDAY: Doug Varone's "Orpheus and Euridice" in Chapel Hill
You heard about the Doug Varone performance -- this weekend, in Chapel Hill -- right? [Editor's note: This performance closed Sunday, June 29.…
View ArticleParadigm World Premiere: Two Redux
[ Editor's note: Paradigm Dance Company gave us permission to post this video only during their performance dates at the 2008 ADF, June 30-July 2. After their performance dates, the video was removed.…
View ArticleBattleworks World Premiere: Reel Time
Exclusive footage of the world premiere of Robert Battle's Reel Time, as performed by Battleworks Dance Company, this week at ADF.
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The Independent Review: Aydin Teker's aKabi
"While three choreographers lured us into their dystopias last week," writes critic Byron Woods, "one—Aydin Teker’s aKabi—was so overtly like [Kurt] Vonnegut['s work] that the title of a specific short...
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So, danced any good jokes lately?
Right. So these two choreographers walk into a barre... You were there.…
View ArticleThe Independent Season Preview (Part II): Who, by dance alone...
The other (pointe) shoe droppeth:In whose dance theatrepiece do city kid games constitute their rehearsals for being adults?Whose overt orientalism is most likely to offend the artists now visiting...
View ArticleThe Independent Review: Paul Taylor's "Changes" and Twyla Tharp's "Sweet Fields"
"Intentionally or otherwise, it was this season’s clearest example thus far of curation as critique—in which one dance work magnified the shortcomings in another simply by being placed next to it in a...
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On the Record: Earlier reviews/interviews Doug Varone, Ronald K. Brown
We've seen -- and reviewed and interviewed -- them before. If you missed our coverage and analysis of previous major regional and ADF performances by Doug Varoneand Dancers and Ronald K. Brown/...
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"We didn't want you preoccupied by real identities."
It was the only reason associate artistic director Janet Wong mentioned in a March post-show talkback in Durham when asked why Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's production of Chapel/Chapter gave...
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Wanted: Audiovisual Rosetta Stone. Must decrypt possibly significant...
Feel like taking out the want ad above after seeing last night's performance of Meredith Monk's Solo from Education of the Girlchild ? Or are you one of the ones who have it all figured out now? Weigh...
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What do you know about Abraham Lincoln?
...after seeing Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition? Bill T. Jones' latest work lets us look in on his deliberative process for an upcoming piece (with the working title A Good Man!/A Good Man? )...
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The Independent Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's"Another...
This time out, Janet Wong's striking video designs provide an appropriate metaphor for Bill T. Jones' new work, which "searches deeply for connections" through our individual histories and American...
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Butoh night in Page Auditorium: your first responses to two world premieres
One by one, the bodies fell down those three platforms to earth at the start of gosh, I am alive... Then Butoh gradually infested a stageful of people in the opening to Secrets of Mankind. But what did...
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The Load Out (Part I)
Okay, let's take stock for a moment. We've seen dozens of works by hundreds of performers over seven full weeks of modern dance.…
View ArticleExclusive footage: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company'sAnother Evening:...
Exclusive video footage from the world premiere of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition, at the 2008 American Dance Festival. Video produced for...
View ArticleExclusive footage: two Butoh world premieres Kochuten's "gosh, I am alive..."...
The headline says it all: exclusive footage of the new world premieres by Muramatsu's Kochuten and Maro's Dai Rakuda Kan at the American Dance Festival. Their final performance here: Thursday, July 17.…
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008 Coming Monday
Our final views -- for now -- on the ADF 2008Season will run in next week's print edition of the Independent Weekly. But if youjust can't wait that long. . . .…
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Actually, visiting choreographer Amanda Miller wasn't part of that ADF MFA...
. until her unprofessional conduct made her its momentary focal point.…
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008: Split stages, split decisions (part...
The chilling finale of the 2008 Season Review is here. Considered in this section: Japanese Festival performances by Natural Dance Theatre and Dance Theatre LUDENS; strong work by ADF dance students;...
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008: Split stages, split decisions (part II)
Part II of the 2008 Season Review is here. In this section: Reconstructions: Donald McKayle's Games and Past/Forward's showings of Laura Dean, Hanya Holm and Erick Hawkins; a girlchild education of a...
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The Independent Review: ADF Season 2008: Split Stages, Split Decisions (Part I)
What threatened to be "a year-long Festival of the Feet" when it was announced in March turned out better than we'd feared. For the most part. With some exceptions.…
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The Load Out (Part II): Suggested ADF Acts for 2009?
Cue the credits: This is our last scheduled post for 2008. We'll still be around to screen, post and reply to your comments -- to me and to each other -- in the days and weeks ahead, so keep 'em coming.…
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