features

Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance
by Deborah Jowitt
Review by Leland Windreich
Jowitt, always a friendly writer in her dance critiques, maintains a presence in each chapter, and her obvious affection for her subject and admiration of his extraordinary gifts prevails in the rich tapestry of experiences that unfolds.
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Tero Saarinen Company: Open Rehearsal: 'Borrowed Light'
by Rosella Simonari
It is rare to see an artist at work. And it is ever rarer to have an artist who shows an unfinished work to an audience, it is like exposing one's own bare body to unpredictable atmospheric changes.
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Seven Sisters Group: 'The Forest' Preview
by Cerise
...a pedestrian pace, everyday situations, and objects turned slightly macabre, create the effect of a kind of weaving and winding angst that never reaches a crisis, but never really goes away either.
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Los Angeles
· Garth Fagan Dance
Oct 23-24, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles
Award winning choreographer of 'The Lion King' brings his own troupe to L.A. with mixed repertory programs featuring 'DANCECOLLAGEFORROMIE.'
· UCI Dance Film Festival
Oct 21-23, Univ. California, Irvine
Directed by John Crawford and Lisa Naugle, the UCI Dance Department and the UCI Film and Video Center in association with Dance Films, Dance Camera West, UCR/California Museum of Photography, and Langson Library present three evenings of dance on film by leading contemporary artists as well as a photographic exhibition and student film competition.

New York
· Ballet Tech - "Man Dance Project"
Oct 21-Nov 7, Joyce Theatre
Eliot Feld's dance company at the Joyce with a program of new ballets and guest artists from New York City Ballet.
· Bangarra Dance Theatre
Oct 21-23, Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival
Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's foremost indigenous company, returns to BAM with Bush, a contemporary celebration of ceremony, music, and nature spawned by the Dreamtime creation stories of the sacred Aboriginal region known as Arnhem Land .

San Francisco Bay Area
· Cullberg Ballet - 'A Sort of' 'Out of Breath'
Oct 14-17, 2004, San Francisco Performances, San Francisco
Returning with new director Johan Inger, the Cullberg brings their own provocative brand of modern mixed rep.
· Bolshoi Ballet - 'Romeo & Juliet,' 'Raymonda'
Nov 3-7, 2004, Cal Performances, Berkeley. Something old and something new, as the Bolshoi brings an avant-garde R& J along with the tutu studded acclaimed 'Raymonda.'

Boston
· Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra - 'Raymonda' and 'Don Quixote'
Oct 7-10, Wang Center
The Bolshoi and their really big brand of ballet bring two full evening works to Boston.
· Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company - 'The Phantom Project'
Oct 22-24, Schubert Theatre
The company celebrates its 20th Anniversary Season with recent works including the Boston premiere of 'Reading, Mercy and the Artificial Nigger' based on a short story by Flannery O'Connor.

Chicago
· The Stars of Chicago Dance
Oct 16, Paramount Theatre, Aurora
The Chicago metropolitan area's finest dance including River North Chicago Dance Company, The World Champion Trinity Irish Dance Company, Hubbard Street 2, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, and Dancers of the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago.
· Gus Giordano Jazz Dance
Oct 21-23, Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago
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London
· Les Ballets C. de la B./Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - 'Tempus Fugit'
Oct 15-16, Queen Elizabeth Hall
One of the hot names of European dance brings a new work to Dance Umbrella.
· David Gordon & Valda Setterfield Pick Up Performance Company - 'The Chairs' (UK Premiere)
Nov 2-4, The Pit, Barbican
These two performers (past the "first blush of youth") worked a small miracle last year with a short Gala piece.
· Royal Ballet - 'Requiem' (MacMillan), 'A Wedding Bouquet' (Ashton), 'Les Noces' (Nijinska)
Oct 22-Nov 8
A triple bill to die for and the start to the Royal`s Ashton season.

Rome
· Romaeuropa Festival 2004:
Akram Khan / Riccardo Nova / Hanif Kureishi - 'Ma'
Oct 14-17,Teatro Argentina;
Emio Greco Pc - 'White (between brain and motion)'
Oct 27-Nov 3, Teatro Valle;
Andre Gingras / Conny Janssen Danst / Raz - 'CYP 17,' 'Album Familiar,' 'Zambracca - house of dreams'
Nov 6-7, Teatro Valle
The last visiting companies of the 2004 edition of Romaeuropa festival, a festival of contemporary art, music, theatre and dance. All the performances are Italian premieres.
· Bejart Ballet Lausanne - 'Firebird,' 'Casino des Esprits,' 'Brel et Barbara'
Oct 13-14,Teatro Olimpico
Accamia Filarmonica Romana's music and dance season opens this year with a first class dance company.
· Rome Opera Ballet - 'La Sylphide'
Oct 30-31, Nov 3, 6, Teatro Nazionale
Bournoville ballet is back in Rome in a successful production.

Naples
· San Carlo Ballet - 'Giselle'
Oct 21-27, Teatro San Carlo
Ambra Vallo, Roberto Bolle, Giuseppe Picone share the principal roles in the romantic masterpeace.

Parma
· ParmaDanza International Dance Festival
Oct 21-Nov 21, Teatro Regio
An interesting international dance festival, starring Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Krasnodar Grigorovich Ballet, Roberto Bolle and Friends, Aterballetto, Naples San Carlo Ballet, and other companies.

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