ADF 2009: Artery, Indy Week

Past/Forward at 2009 ADF

Sarah Ewald — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:36:35 -0400

Footage of the 2009 American Dance Festival program Past/Forward with performances of Faye Driscoll's There's So Much Mad in Me and Laura Dean's Infinity, as reconstructed by Rodger Belman. The piece Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret by Rosie Herrera is not shown here, but will also be performed.…

Paul Taylor Dance Company's "Beloved Renegade"

Sarah Ewald — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:12:47 -0400

The footage you see here is of Beloved Renegade, as rehearsed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Paul Taylor established his company in 1954 in Manhattan along with five other dancers.…

Slideshow Preview for Doug Elkins and Friends: Fraülein Maria

Belem Destefani — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:13:25 -0400

Images of Doug Elkins and Friends performing Fraülein Maria at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Commentary and production by Belem Destefani and Sarah Ewald.…

Slideshow Preview for Pilobolus: 2b

Belem Destefani — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:57:00 -0400

Images of the world premiere of 2b by Pilobolus at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Commentary by Belem Destefani and Sarah Ewald.…

Slideshow Preview for H. Art Chaos: Flowers of the Bones and The Rite of Spring at ADF

Belem Destefani — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:34:23 -0400

Images of the world premiere of Flowers of the Bones and a performance of The Rite of Spring by H. Art Chaos at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Commentary by Belem Destefani and Sarah Ewald.…

You be the judge! Cedar Lake's "Decadance" vs. Batsheva...

Byron Woods — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:13:57 -0400

“But…it looks really different when it’s placed on ballet dancers!”

That’s what ADF sources told us when we asked about the differences between the version of Decadance that festival goers saw here in 2004 and the version Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance performs this week at DPAC.

Though the company provided us with the 30-second clip above, you can view a 5½ -minute excerpt from the company’s website here.

The work constitutes a potent fast-forward through ten years of choreography Naharin created for his Batsheva Dance Company in Israel. Vivid sequences excerpted from works including Naharin’s Virus and Anaphaza pointedly critiqued the politics of coercion, surveillance, intimidation and religious extremism, while others probed the questionable ethics of erotica.…

Previewing Emanuel Gat's Winter Variations at ADF

Byron Woods — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:38:20 -0400

Exclusive photo call footage of Emanuel Gat's Winter Variations at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Dancers: Emanuel Gat and Roy Assaf.…

American Dance Festival opens 2009 season with Shen Wei world premiere

David Fellerath — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:59:29 -0400

Welcome back to the Indy's ADF blog. This year, we've revamped our arts blogging as part of a site-wide redesign.…

Evan Rachel Wood, by any other name

Denise Prickett — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:20:46 -0400

Update (May 11, 2009): Theatre In The Park is announcing today one additional performance of Romeo & Juliet. Tickets ($50) for the Tuesday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. show can be purchased by calling the theater's box office, 919-831-6058.…

ADF announces 2009 season: new venue, usual suspects, cuts in programming...

Byron Woods — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:30:24 -0400

The American Dance Festival announced the lineup for its 2009 season at the end of last week. Dance cognoscenti had braced for the worst, given warnings earlier in the year about financial reversals in support due to the economic maelstrom.…

2009 ADF season announced

Denise Prickett — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:45:43 -0400

The 2009 ADF season, entitled "Where Ballet and Modern Meet," will feature eight world premieres, one U.S. premiere, and four reconstructions.

According to the ADF Web site,

"Work that was previously presented at Page Auditorium on the Duke University campus will now be presented at the beautiful new Durham Performing Arts Center in downtown Durham.…
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