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AUG 03
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features

What's happened to Berlin's Tanz im August Festival?
by Franz Anton Cramer
August, 2003
It would be a great achievement to communicate the variety and relevance of so-called contemporary dance forms to an audience that might not yet have had the chance to become accustomed to innovations of and within the performing arts. 
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Justifying Judson:
A One day colloquium with Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer
by Katie Phillips
Dancers began to walk and run, or simply do nothing – a specific relationship with the space was all that mattered.
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Nederlands Dans Theater:  Jorma Elo
by Maria Technosux
May - June 2003
Personal reflections on NDT's Jorma Elo from our correspondent in Amsterdam.
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interviews

Ariana Lallone & Otto Neubert of Pacific Northwest Ballet
by Francis Timlin & Dean Speer
"We each recognize that our careers are so important. And we find that we're able to separate our personal and professional lives."
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Mark Morris on Lou Harrison, Léo Delibes and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
by Mary Ellen Hunt
"Every dance ever is because of the music," Mark Morris declares, ending his statement with a tone that implies "full-stop."
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reviews

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - 'Les Sylphides,' 'Pas de Trois des Odalisques,' 'Spring Waters,' 'Don Quixote,' 'The Dying Swan,' 'Stars & Stripes Forever'
by Holly Messitt
August 15, 2003 -- Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York
Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center was overflowing with unlucky New Yorkers who had not or could not escape the city during the country's largest blackout in history.
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Gala of International Ballet Stars 2003
by Marisa Hayes
August 9, 2003 -- Arnoff Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
If I had been blindfolded at the second annual Gala of International Ballet Stars, I would've guessed that I was in a sports arena.
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Twyla Tharp Dance - 'Known by Heart Duet,' 'The Fugue,' 'Westerly Round,' and 'Surfer at the River Styx
by Holly Messitt
August 6, 2003 -- Joyce Theater, New York
Speaking many vernaculars, her work tends toward the fun, witty, and imaginative. Full of quick energy and fast, difficult footwork, it crosses boarders between ballet, tap, modern dance, disco, Flamenco ñ the list goes on.
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Mike Minery's TAPAHOLICS
by Jenai Cutcher
August 10, 2003 -- The Duke at 42nd Street, NY
Everybody likes Mike. It's not hard to see why tap dancer Mike Minery has such a fan base in lively attendance for his Tapaholics performance at the Duke on 42nd St. last Sunday afternoon.
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American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive - Final Performance
by Kate Snedeker
August 1, 2003 -- LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, New York
As August began, American Ballet Theatre's New York Summer Intensive program concluded with its traditional final performance that highlighted the varied and wonderful talents of the nearly 250 teenaged participants.
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Trisha Brown Dance Company - 'Winterreise'
by Holly Messitt
July 31, 2003 -- John Jay College Theater, New York
As I watched Trisha Brown's choreography to Franz Schubert's "Winterreise," the song cycle Schubert wrote to Wilhelm Müller's poetry, I couldn't help but wonder at how amazingly well these two opposing temperaments worked together.
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Manuel Legris et les solistes de l'Opéra de Paris -- 'Return to a Strange Land,' 'La Sylphide,' 'Magnificat,' 'Carmen,' 'Le Corsaire'
by Marc
25 juillet 2003 - Les Baux de Provence
Legris est magnifique d'aisance et de précision. Il a un charisme que je ne lui connaissais pas et séduit le public.
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Summerfest : West Wave Dance Festival 2003
by Mary Ellen Hunt
July 24, 26, 2003 -- Cowell Theater, Fort Mason , San Francisco , CA
I admit, every year I approach Summerfest's West Wave Dance Festival with trepidation. There is an anticipation of what wonderful discoveries there might be, mixed with the knowledge that if I don't have enough coffee beforehand, I might not be awake by the time the good stuff rolls around.
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Compañía Maria Pagés and MéMé BaNjO - Compagnie Lionel Hoche
by S.E. Arnold
June 25 - 29, 2003 -- Jacob's Pillow, MA
Although the companies performing concurrently at Jacob's Pillow often differ dramatically in dance styles, a viewer can nevertheless count on a complementary relationship between them.
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Julio Bocca and Ballet Argentino - 'Boccatango'
by Patrizia Vallone
June 2003 -- Teatro Sistina, Rome
Academic technique blended with typical tango steps in an interesting and harmoniously "contaminated" dance style.
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Buglisi/Foreman Dance- 'Scene 1: Pollen in the Air,' 'Suite; Arms Around Me,' 'Blue Cathedral,' 'Lisa D.,' and 'Requiem'
by S.E. Arnold
July 24-27, 2003 -- Doris Duke Theater at Jacob's Pillow, MA
Outside the theatre the golden sidelong light of the setting sun wove haunting shapes of shadow and mist across the great crush and crease of the Berkshire's fabric of stone, and in one's contemplative fancy this visual serenade met the Buglisi and Foreman works in even measure.
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Letter from the Editors
      Balanchine said it about ballet but it's true of all dance: Dance is art and significant -- but first of all, it is a pleasure... With reviews of the new Adam Cooper "On Your Toes," the ever-spoofy Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, tapmeister Mike Minery's Tapaholics, and reports on ballet, modern dance, tap, tango, and jazz -- we think you'll agree.
      Worldwide, our far flung correspondents brave wind, water, wounds, wonder-rental cars, wilds, and parking garages to bring you dance from Lithuania, France, the Netherlands, and Italy, as well as heat-drenched London and power-less New York.
      Of course, we always love to hear from you. Please post your comments in our Magazine Feedback Discussion Topic in the CriticalDance forum. And, if you want the magazine delivered right to your inbox, subscribe!

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The Editors of Ballet-Dance Monthly

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