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Dance Theatre of Harlem Returns, A Legacy Continues by Lisa Traiger

“Everybody in, nobody out” was WPAS’s mantra when founded in 1966 by the venerable one-time actor turned classical music impresario Patrick Hayes. As a press and marketing intern at WPAS in the 1980s, I saw Mr. Hayes, as almost everyone called him, nearly every day; though he had retired, he still came into the office daily and maintained relationships with world-renowned performing artists and funders, ambassadors and embassy officials, community groups and D.C. area arts supporters.

Love Letters of WWII by Mélange Dance Theatre at the Library of Congress by Blythe

“Only love can console this poor world. Only love can set us free,” intones the narrator of “Love Letters of WWII” at the Library of Congress by New Orleans’ Mélange Dance Theatre. Played by Emily Thibodeaux, our narrator will be with us for the entire performance, patiently sitting upstage left against the wall, a box of old letters at her side..

Angel Ramirez’s Vamos a bailar? at Atlas by Luisa Lynch

A dancer in the spotlight, suspending, pushing, moving with control that cuts through space with intention as cloudy as grief yet as clear as glimmering water. An amorphous group of bodies becoming liquid, fluidly melting into each other like beads of sweat dripping down your back when dancing to your favorite song under club lights..

Chamber Dance Project at Woolly Mammoth by Lisa Traiger

When major and regional ballet companies go on hiatus for the summer, choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning turns the lights on and gets a selected few of those dancers back in rehearsal. Her Washington, D.C.-based Chamber Dance Project lives its name, producing one or two full dance concerts annually while the rest of the U.S. ballet world has closed shop for the summer.
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