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| Essential Martha Graham: Classics from the Martha Graham Dance Company Tuesday, October 2, $22.00 Martha Graham’s mid-century artistic explorations are rightly called the crucible of modern American dance. Not only were her creations from this era groundbreaking works of enduring beauty and power, but three of her company dancers—Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, and Paul Taylor—went on to make their own significant contributions to dance. This “Essential” program highlights dances from this era, with such compelling works as Diversion of Angels, Acts of Light, and El Penitente. |
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Danny Hoch's Takin' Over
Wednesday and Thursday, November 7 and 8, $15.00 Hip-hop theater artist Danny Hoch has wowed the downtown New York arts community and delighted audiences throughout the country with his perceptive sketches of urban life, creating characters from many cultures, identities, and stations in the world. His new solo show, Takin’ Over, sees urban gentrification as a kind of neo-feudalism in the new millennium. Hoch’s assemblage of alter egos includes invading artists, hipsters, developers and community folk who have been “living there for a long time,” all explored through the eyes, ears, and voice of one of the hip-hop generation’s leading actor/playwrights. |
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| Urban Bush Women and Jant-Bi : The Beauty of Little Things
Tuesday, February 12 ,
$22.00 Urban Bush Women personify the joyful self-confidence and swagger of African-American and feminist experience. Jant-Bi, the charismatic all-male dance company from Senegal, combines ancient West African performance traditions with contemporary movement shaped by choreographer Germaine Acogny. Each ensemble commands center stage in the world of contemporary dance, with breathtaking performances of emotion and expressiveness. This rare touring collaboration extends across boundaries of gender, culture, and aesthetics, inviting viewers into a fundamental common ground of place and community, “the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.” |
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| Paul Taylor Dance Company Tuesday, April 8 , $25.00 Now in his sixth decade of making dances, Paul Taylor is an American treasure. His company’s American Masterpieces tour of Pennsylvania brings two of Taylor’s recent creations, the jaunty send-up of Shakespeare’s comedy, Troilus and Cressida (Abridged) and the deeply cathartic post-9/11 masterpiece Promethean Fire, set to the music of Bach. Also on the program are two revivals especially mounted for this tour: 1962’s Aureole, set to music by Handel, and 1988’s Counterswarm, a beautifully frenetic spree danced to music by Ligetti. The Paul Taylor Company tour in Pennsylvania is part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, with support from the NEA and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. |
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