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From the online weekly calendar this morning: Sarah Skaggs’ Dances for Airports runs tonight in Schaefer Theater (one floor beneath Reynolds Theater), between the two Australian performances, at 8:45 p.m.
For detailed background info on the project, click here. (And for our coverage of the artist’s first three attempts to give her final M.F.A. performance, click here.)
“May I have your attention? This is an announcement for all passengers still waiting to board Sarah Skaggs‘ Dances for Airports, originally scheduled for takeoff from Duke’s Schaefer Theater, Saturday, July 7 at 6:45 p.m., initially rescheduled for that evening at 8:30 p.m., and then subsequently rescheduled for Monday, July 9 at 8:30 p.m.”
“A scheduling conflict with ADF mainstage programming — specifically, an audience/artist talkback after a Gabriela Prado & Eugenia Estevez performance — means that she (and you) just got bumped. Again.”
This post will have rescheduling information, when it becomes available. Check back.
There we were: two hundred or so of the dance cognoscenti, waiting eagerly outside Schaefer Theater, mere moments before the 6:45 p.m. showing of Sarah Skaggs’ Dances for Airports.
That’s when the fire alarm went off.
When the (stage) smoke had cleared, Skaggs’ final performance had to be rescheduled — at the fire marshal’s insistance — to Monday night, between that evening’s two ADF mainstage shows, “around 8:30 p.m.” Continue reading »
Sarah Skaggs was already at work on Dances for Airports when we interviewed her during a residency in
“When they touch the piano, there is such a breath to the actual way it’s touched. I’m trying to match that in my movement. It’s just like I’m trying to capture and hold the air in my dancing from movement to movement,” Skaggs said, “actually a kinetic response to the way they’re plucking the instruments. It’s such a challenge.” Continue reading »
From the June 27th Independent Weekly… Continue reading »
If you make tracks you can catch one of these on Saturday night, when Pilobolus closes its 2007 ADF stand with what is easily the strongest work we’ve seen from them in years. That would be the world premiere of Rushes, Robby Barnett’s collaboration with Israel’s Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. Continue reading »
The same night Inbal Pinto’s collaboration with the Pils had its world premiere, ADF faculty member and MFA student Antonietta Vicario’s company showed their edgy trio on the performance of female identity and sexuality in a late night performance, at the venerable Ark. What did you think of what you saw — in either venue? Say so in Comments…
Insiders know that the mainstage shows are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dance performances at ADF. All summer long, emerging professional choreographers and dancers are showing their works, on side stages on Duke’s West and East campuses. And the price is right: most of the performances are free.
We’ve been following Lisa Race’s work for years: in thoughtful, exuberant dances she’s put on students as an ADF faculty member and as a guest choreographer at regional colleges. Friday night sees her latest work, Garden: Retreat, in an MFA concert for the ADF school. It’s at Sheafer Theater (on the bottom floor of
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