American Dance Festival - 75th Anniversary - 6/5 - 7/19/08

919/684-6402 or http://www.americandancefestival.org/. Eleven world premieres, 60 dances, 37 companies....

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• Thursday-Saturday June 5-7
  ADF: Shen Wei Dance Arts*, David Parsons**, & Ailey II***
  Program: Connect Transfer* (new version - premiere); Caught**; & Revelations***
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 6/5-6 @ 8p & 6/7 @ 2p & 8p. Post-performance discussion 6/6.
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• Sunday-Tuesday June 8-10
  ADF: Limón Dance Company* & Dayton Contemporary Dance Company**
  Program: The Moor’s Pavane* (choreographed by José Limón); Chaconne* (choreo. Limón); Evening Songs* (choreo. Jirí Kylián); Las Desenamoradas** (choreo. Eleo Pomare); Mourner’s Bench** (choreo. Talley Beatty); & Awassa Astrige/Ostrich** (choreo. Asadata Dafora)
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m. Post-performance discussion 6/9.
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• Thursday-Saturday June 12-14
  ADF: Trisha Brown Dance Company* & Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company**
  Program: Accumulation, Spanish Dance, & PRESENT TENSE*; & Tensile Involvement** (choreographed by Alwin Nikolais), & Crucible** (choreo. Nikolais)
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m. & children's matinee 6/14 @1p. Post-performance discussion 6/12.
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• Monday- Wednesday June 16-18
  ADF: Eiko & Koma*, ZviDance**, & John Jasperse Company***
  Program: Rust *; Les Noces**; & T.b.a. (premiere)***
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m. Post-performance discussion 6/17.
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• Thursday-Saturday June 19-21
  ADF: Pilobolus
  Program: T.b.a. (premiere); other works t.b.a.; & Nocturne (choreographed by Martha Clarke)
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m. & children's matinee 6/21 @1p. Post-performance discussion 6/19.
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• Sunday June 22
  ADF: Musicians Concert
  Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University, Durham. 7:30 p.m.
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• Tuesday-Wednesday June 24-25
  ADF: Compagnie Maguy Marin*, Aydin Teker and Dancers**, & Khadija Marcia Radin***
  Program: Umwelt*; aKabi**; Dunya Road***; & Rapture (The Road of Apparent Reality)***
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 6/24 @ 8p & 6/25@ 2p & 8p. Post-performance discussion 6/25.
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• Thursday-Saturday June 26-28
  ADF: Martha Graham Dance Company* & Lar Lubovitch Dance Company**
  Program: Lamentation*; Diversion of Angels*; Chronicle: Steps in the Streets*; & Concerto Six Twenty-Two**
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m. Post-performance discussion 6/27.
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• Saturday June 28
  ADF: Teaching Tribute: Dianne McIntyre... receive[s] this year's Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching
  Griffith Film Theatre, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 5:00 p.m.
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• Sunday June 29
  ADF: Laura Dean [receives] the 2008 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 7:30 p.m.
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• Monday-Wednesday June 30 - July 2
  ADF: Keigwin + Company*; Battleworks**; & PARADIGM***
  Program: Water*; Air* (premiere); Promenade**; Ella**; Reel Time** (premiere); T.b.a.*** (choreo. Larry Keigwin) (premiere); & Two Redux*** (choreographed by Robert Battle) (premiere);
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m.. Post-performance discussion 6/30.
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• Thursday-Saturday July 3-5
  ADF: Paul Taylor Dance Company* & Aspen Santa Fe Ballet**
  Program: CHANGES*; 3 Epitaphs*; Promethean Fire*; Sweet Fields**; & Sinatra Suite** (choreographed by Twyla Tharp)
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 7/3 & 7/5 @ 8p & 7/4 @ 7p, & children's matinee 7/5 @ 1p. Post-performance discussion 7/3.
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• Monday-Wednesday July 7-9
  ADF: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE*; Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble**; & Doug Varone and Dancers***
  Program: For You*; Walking Out the Dark*; Games** (choreographed by Donald McKayle); Lux***; & Home***
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m.. Post-performance discussion 7/8.
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• Thursday-Saturday July 10-12
  ADF: Meredith Monk* & Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company**
  Program: Education of the Girlchild: an opera: Solo* (1972); & Another Evening: A Serenade** (premiere)
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m.. Post-performance discussion 7/11.
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• Sunday July 13
  ADF: Faculty Concert
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 7:30 p.m.
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• Monday-Wednesday July 14-16
  ADF: ADF Dancers
  Program: PAST/FORWARD - Tympani (choreographed by Laura Dean); T.b.a. (premiere) (choreo. Mark Dendy); New Moon (choreo. Erick Hawkins); & Jocose (choreo. Hanya Holm)
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m.. Post-performance discussion 7/15
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• Wednesday-Thursday July 16-17
  ADF: Dairakudakan* & Kochuten**
  Program: Japanese Festival I - Secrets of Mankind* (choreographed by Akaji Maro) (premiere); & ...gosh, I am alive...** (choreo. Takuya Muramatsu) (premiere)
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m..
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• Friday-Saturday July 18-19
  ADF: Natural Dance Theatre*, Dance Theatre LUDENS**, Kei Takei***, & Teruko Fujisato****
  Program: Japanese Festival II - Circus*; Against Newton 2**; Woman Washing Rice***; & Shinju ten no Amijima****
  Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 7/18 @ 8p & 7/19 @ 2p & 8p. Post-performance discussion 7/19
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• Saturday July 19
  ADF: Hollins University/American Dance Festival
  Program: MFA Performance
  Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University, Durham. 8:00 p.m..
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  Note: "Acts to Follow," the ADF's showcases of local companies, will not be presented in this 75th anniversary season.

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• ADF includes... "Ririe-Woodbury's performances of Alwin Nikolais classics and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's performances of Twyla Tharp's repertory, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company's performances of Talley Beatty and Eleo Pomare, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble's performances of work by Donald McKayle.... The ... repertory crisscrosses decades reaching back as far as Martha Graham's 1930 classic antiwar solo 'Lamentation,' and Asadata Dafora's anthropomorphic 'Awassa Astrige/Ostrich' (1932), Tally Beatty's 1947 masterpiece 'Mourner's Bench' and José Limón's 1942 solo 'Chaconne.' There will be reconstructions of classic works, selected to suggest the extensive and singular riches... of modern dance, with each reconstruction reflecting the unique contribution of its choreographer: Donald McKayle's 'Games' (1951); Laura Dean's 'Tympani' (1980); Erick Hawkins' 'New Moon' (1989); Hanya Holm's 'Jocose' (1984), and Martha Clarke's 'Nocturne,' commissioned by the ADF in 1979. Adding to the Festival's history of 600 world premieres, the season will include newly minted dances... by John Jasperse, Pilobolus (with Basil Twist), Larry Keigwin, Robert Battle, Mark Dendy, Dairakudakan, Kochuten, plus Shen Wei's 'Connect Transfer' (new version). The season will also feature a new version of Bill T. Jones's 'Another Evening: A Good....' American companies new to ADF are: Ailey II (... 'Revelations'), Ririe-Woodbury (Alwin Nikolais' 'Crucible' (1985) and 'Tensile Involvement' (1955)) and ZviDance (Zvi Gotheiner's 2006 'Les Noces'). PARADIGM... (Carmen deLavallade and Gus Solomons jr) will present two world premieres, one choreographed by Robert Battle, and the other by Larry Keigwin.... American-born Khadija Marcia Radin will perform her 'Dunya Road (The Road of Apparent Reality)' and 'Rapture,' both influenced by Islamic Sufi whirling. Twyla Tharp's 'Sinatra Suite' (1984) and 'Sweet Fields' (1996) will be performed by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. ADF's ... international work continuess ... with a festival of Japanese dance companies, each presenting an American premiere, including 'Shinju ten no Amijima,' a solo choreographed and performed by Teruko Fujisato; Takiko Iwabuchi's 'Against Newton 2,' performed by Dance Theatre LUDENS; Shinji Nakamura's 'Circus,' performed by Natural Dance Theatre, as well as 'Woman Washing Rice,' choreographed and performed by Kei Takei. Dairakudakan... returns with the ADF-commissioned world premiere of Akaji Maro's 'Secrets of Mankind.' Takuya Muramatsu's 'gosh, I am alive' will be performed by dancers from Kochuten. ...Compagnie Maguy Marin... will present Marin's 'Umwelt' (2004), a powerful new look at human existence. Also on the boards is Turkey's Aydin Teker and Dancers, which performs Teker's 2005 'aKabi.' ... Ronald K. Brown and Doug Varone ...will be represented by some of their most popular dances including Doug Varone's 'Lux' and 'Home,' and Brown's 'Walking Out the Dark' and 'For You,' a solo tribute to ... the late Stephanie Reinhart. Trisha Brown... will be represented by some of her classic dances: 'PRESENT TENSE,' 'Spanish Dance,' and 'Accumulation...." Lar Lubovitch... will be represented by 'Concerto Six Twenty-Two...' David Parsons will perform his 1981 eye-tricking classic 'Caught.' Meredith Monk... returns... to perform the vocal solo from 'Education of the Girlchild: an opera' (1972). Eiko and Koma will perform their 1989 'Rust.' For decades no ADF summer has gone by without performances by Pilobolus and Paul Taylor Dance Company ([performing 'CHANGES'). [T]his season... also sees the return of Shen Wei Dance Arts." [Presumably dates, locations, times & prices will be forthcoming.]

  "Other shows... include the Festival's annual Musicians Concert on 6/22.... The ADF Dance Faculty Concert takes place 7/13, and the Hollins University/American Dance Festival MFA show on 7/19.

  "Choreographer, dancer, [&] teacher,Dianne McIntyre will receive this year's Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching; [s]he will be honored on 6/28. Laura Dean will be presented with the 2008 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award as part of a special performance in her honor on 6/29...." [For details, click here.]

  "...The Festival's six-week school takes place this year, 6/5 - 7/20. Attracting over 450 students worldwide each summer, the Festival offers courses in all forms of dance and related subjects. It also hosts a four-week School for Young Dancers, which takes place this summer, 6/5 - 7/20.

  "Choreographers from China, Taiwan, Russia, Mongolia, Argentina, and Germany, among other countries will participate in the Festival's 2008 International Choreographers Residency Program. The six-week program began in 1984 to stimulate a vibrant exchange of ideas among the artists, encourage the creation of new dances, and forge new collaborations.

  "The Festival hosts two symposiums to explore the relationship of dance and film entitled Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance, which takes place... 7/11-13, and Screendance: State of the Art 2, Curating the Practice/Curating as Practice, 7/10-14."

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  February 29 (rev. March 4), 2008, Durham, NC. Laura Dean to Receive the 2008 Samuel H. Scripps/ADF $50,000 Award
  
  The American Dance Festival will award distinguished choreographer and composer Laura Dean with the 2008 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival (ADF) Award for Lifetime Achievement. Established in 1981 by Samuel H. Scripps, the annual award honors choreographers who have dedicated their lives and talent to the creation of modern dance. The recently increased $50,000 award will be presented to Ms. Dean in a special ceremony on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Auditorium at Duke University as part of the ADF’s Alumni Weekend events. A reception will be held prior to the ceremony with a performance of Ms. Dean’s Sky Light (1982) to follow. The award will be presented by ADF Director Charles Reinhart. Recognized by The San Francisco Examiner as “one of the major artists of the age,” Ms. Dean is renowned for her work as both choreographer and musician. Ms. Dean started her professional career with the Paul Taylor Dance Company before establishing Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians in New York in 1972; the ensemble was renamed "Laura Dean Musicians and Dancers" and moved to NC in 1995. The company toured prestigious venues across the U.S., Europe and Asia for over 20 years until its disbandment in 2000. Ms. Dean has created over 50 choreographic works. She has received commissions from the ADF, The Kennedy Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Walker Art Center, The Avignon Festival, The Royal Danish Ballet, The New York City Ballet, The Frankfurt Ballet, The Ohio Ballet, and The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, among others.
  
  Ms. Dean is the outstanding recipient of many awards including a “Bessie” New York Dance Award, two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships for Choreography, The Dance Magazine Award, and the Lester Horton Award for Music for Dance. She has served on the panels of multiple arts organizations and her studio artwork has been on exhibit at The Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Venice Bienalle. This summer the ADF will celebrate Ms. Dean’s choreographic accomplishments with the reconstruction of "Tympani" (1980)*, to be performed in the sequel Past/Forward program as part of the Festival’s 75th anniversary performances.
  
  Ms. Dean will be the first recipient to receive $50,000 for the award, an [amount] increased from $35,000 in prior years. Past recipients of the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award include Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Hanya Holm, Alwin Nikolais, Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Erick Hawkins, Twyla Tharp, Anna Sokolow, Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, Trisha Brown, Meredith Monk, Anna Halprin, Fayard and Harold Nicholas, Pina Bausch, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Garth Fagan, Maguy Marin, Eiko and Koma, Bill T. Jones, Murray Louis, Mark Morris and posthumously in honor of Doris Humphry, Charles Weidman, José Limón, Pearl Primus and Helen Tamiris.
  
  For more information on the ADF and all of its programs please call 919/684-6402 or visit the ADF website at www.americandancefestival.org.
  
  *As reconstructed by Rodger Belman (choreography) and Jason Cirker (music).