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Byron Woods ·
21 Jul 2008, 11:03 PM ·
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What threatened to be “a year-long Festival of the Feet” when it was announced in March turned out better than we’d feared.
For the most part.
With some exceptions.
This version of our comprehensive season wrap is verifiably our last word on ADF Season 2008. With 1,100 more words than the story in our print edition (including our views on Meredith Monk, Maguy Marin, the Japanese Festival and Acts to Follow), this report has all the juicy stuff we couldn’t cram onto the pages of this week’s copy of the Independent Weekly.
Buy the ticket — click on “more” — and read the verdicts (in this and the next two posts). Then leave your reactions in Comments, below. As always, your replies won’t appear immediately, since we have to screen for spam. But all legitimate responses will be posted.
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Dance ADF Students, Eiko & Koma, Krapp
Byron Woods ·
1 Jul 2008, 6:45 AM ·
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“While three choreographers lured us into their dystopias last week,” writes critic Byron Woods, “one—Aydin Teker’s aKabi—was so overtly like [Kurt] Vonnegut['s work] that the title of a specific short story came to mind in the middle of the performance.”
Could this possibly be a good sign? Read on to find out: the pre-publication of the dance review from this week’s Independent Weekly follows.
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Dance Aydin Teker, Eiko & Koma, Krapp, Pilobolus
Byron Woods ·
11 Jun 2008, 4:25 AM ·
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Okay, maybe it was drama’s night out at the ADF when the Limon Company and DCDC took the Page stage Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. By evening’s end we’d seen, among other things, homicidal suspicion, jealousy and murder in The Moor’s Pavane and sexual angst, pathological parenting and suicide (with maybe just a touch of Joan Crawford in the mix?) in Las Desenamoradas.
So why am I stuck feeling that Jiri Kylian’s Evening Songs was actually the creepiest work of the night?
I’m not going to have time to explore this until tonight at the earliest. But it’s bugging me now, so I’m going to go ahead and throw it out there. Did Evening Songs give anyone else in the theater a case of the creeps — even when compared to the other horror shows on the menu?
I’m just asking.
Dance Krapp, Martha Graham Dance Company
Byron Woods ·
10 Jul 2007, 7:07 AM ·
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From this week’s Independent:
“Usually, when foreign companies appear at ADF, they shed considerable light on the present. Their work discloses how contemporary and experimental dance have developed under different conditions in different cultures, and how they address those cultures’ present concerns.”
“Though it was unintentional, to be sure, Thursday night’s performances—and particularly the post-show artist/audience talkbacks—repeatedly underscored the past instead.”
Read the rest of our review, and respond in comments. Continue reading »
Dance Compania Contenido Bruto, Krapp
Megan Stein ·
6 Jul 2007, 9:48 PM ·
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“I was relieved that I didn’t understand, because it forced me to remain constantly engaged in the piece.” The translator for last night’s post-performance discussion with the Argentine foursome, Compañía Contenido Bruto was not the only one watching the U.S. premiere of their piece, Kevental who did not understand. Bruto’s performance was saturated with complexities and intricacies, such as layered sound scores and several long periods of silence. Continue reading »
Dance Compania Contenido Bruto, Krapp
Byron Woods ·
27 Jun 2007, 6:35 AM ·
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Latest update (6 p.m. Tuesday):
ADF administration reported $1,425 in donations toward the SunTrust Carolinas Group Foundation challenge grant of $6,500 to cover the travel costs of the Argentine dance companies left high and dry by Marca Argentina on June 19 after its February commitment to bring them here. The sordid story thus far can be read here and here.
Meanwhile, Danciti.com’s coverage of the story alleges that the festival has actually been adding performances by the companies while it has threatened to cancel the series. The New York city dance blog further accuses the festival of “bullying third world countries” and “using [the event] as (sic) ploy for sympathy and money.” That sordid story can be read here.
Dance Compania Contenido Bruto, Edgardo Mercado & Susana Tambutti, Gabriela Prado & Eugenia Estévez, Krapp
Byron Woods ·
25 Jun 2007, 2:35 PM ·
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ADF associate director Jodee Nimerichter announced Monday afternoon that the Argentine festival of performances is back on the schedule for the 2007 American Dance Festival.
The week of performances by five companies and choreographers slated for July 5-10 was suddenly endangered last week when Marca Argentina, an Argentine government agency, informed ADF on June 19 that it was backing out of a February agreement to fund the companies’ travel to the United States. The development left 14 of the 19 scheduled Argentine dancers from Grupo Krapp, Compania Contenido Bruto, and Edgardo Mercado, Gabriela Prado and Eugenia Estevez, without plane tickets to the United States.
But Monday, the SunTrust Foundation issued a challenge grant in the amount of $6,500 to help bridge the estimated $14,000 deficit. And good news came from another quarter: American Airlines announced it would donate a ticket to cover one of the dancers and offer discounts on the rest.
“We feel we can move forward now,” said Nimerichter, “and as you can imagine, the companies really need to know if they’re coming at this point.”
At press time, the festival had already received $975 in community donations to make up the difference. Patrons can contribute to the fund by phone with a major credit card or by mailing a contribution marked “Argentine Festival” to Box 90772, Durham NC 27708.
Dance Compania Contenido Bruto, Edgardo Mercado & Susana Tambutti, Gabriela Prado & Eugenia Estévez, Krapp
David Fellerath ·
20 Jun 2007, 7:49 PM ·
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Uh-oh. Week five of the American Dance Festival, which was to be given over to four dance companies from Argentina, may be in severe jeopardy.
The festival is announcing tonight that travel funding to Compania Contenido Bruto, Gabriela Prado & Eugenia Estevez; Edgardo Mercado and Krapp has been denied by the Argentine government’s newly formed Marca Argentina, an agency chartered to promote that country’s culture abroad.
In a press release issued Wednesday evening, festival director and president Charles L. Reinhart said, “The news was shocking. We were so excited to bring the companies to an American audience. … It is deeply disappointing and ironic that an agency that had been created to showcase its national talent then makes it impossible to so.”
The four companies were scheduled to perform at Durham’s American Dance Festival from July 5-10. No reason has been given yet for the withholding of travel funds.
More soon….
Dance Compania Contenido Bruto, Edgardo Mercado & Susana Tambutti, Gabriela Prado & Eugenia Estévez, Krapp
