Author: IsItModern?
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JACK FERVER at ADI by Luella Christopher
THIS ROOM IS FULL UP : SO SAY AUTHOR GENET AND JACK FERVER American Dance Institute Rockville, Maryland Feb. 20-21, 2015 By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. Jack Ferver wants his audience to squirm, choreographer and colleague Jane Comfort opines in her introductory lecture to “Chambre”. This comports with ADI’s reputation for interdisciplinary work in post-modern dance…
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ROSY SIMAS DANSE at Dance Place by Luella Christopher
ROSY SIMAS DANSE PAYS TRIBUTE TO SENECA ANCESTORS Dance Place Washington, D.C. April 18-19, 2015 By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. “We Wait in the Darkness” by Rosy Simas is tender, wracked with catastrophe and yet life-affirming. Through the many disciplines of dance, sound, image, art, nature, poetry and history, Simas in a one-woman performance demonstrates how…
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AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE 2014 FALL SEASON HIGHLIGHTS by Luella Christopher
AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE 2014 FALL SEASON HIGHLIGHTS By Luella Christopher, Ph.D.* Copyright © 2015 BALLET ADI on Nov. 21-22 offered the purest balletic and most polished of American Dance Institute’s 2014 fall offerings in Rockville, Maryland. Company director Runqiao Du is a graduate of the Shanghai School of Dance and former dancer with The Washington…
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“DANCE PROJECT” CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE AT JOY OF MOTION BY LUELLA CHRISTOPHER
“CIRCUMNAVIGATING THE WOMEN’S ROOM”: JOY OF MOTION’S DANCE PROJECT, JACK GUIDONE THEATER, WASHINGTON, D.C. December 6 and 7, 2014 By Luella Christopher, Ph.D.* Mini-scripts by the choreographers for the program at the Joy of Motion Dance Project in D.C.’s Friendship Heights (bordering on the Maryland state line) highlight the beneficence and anomalies of being fully…
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ddespair’s Album Cover!
In our last blog, we introduced ddespair. In this blog, we unveil the album cover! I was walking through the snow, and I came upon this abandon nest. I thought to myself; “what a lovely contradiction to Victorian Summer!” The nest was such an intriguing shape. A perfect circle accomplished by nature, and yet, it…