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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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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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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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