Sunday, July 15, 2007
The native dancers tapped into a resource that only few of the ADF performance companies have utilized this year: speech. Three pieces included spoken text within the work, most notably in Christina Tsoules Soriano’s Begin Again which played on the idea of what it means to begin a dance by responding vocally on stage to a pre-recorded track.
The choreographers had a lot to offer, from the horizontal movement pattern in Autumn Mist Belk’s Regulation to the cool, fluid motion in Courtney Greer’s Within Were Fears, Without Were Fightings.
Many of the choreographers appeared in one another’s works, indicating that a strong community exists for dance here in
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Wow. Ive seen videos of some of the choreography from the festival and it is AMAZING. You guys have a great thing going on here. Stay on your toes, Selly http://danceoutlook.blogspot.com/ Dance Outlook is a daily dance blog focusing on happenings in the dance world and reviews of dance shows, companies, performances, and more.
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