From the New York Times:<P><B>Where Dancers and Deer Can Play</B><P>By JENNIFER DUNNING <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The sweet smell of new cedar hung in the air. Beyond the windows lay not the bland urban sky and sooty edifices of most New York City studio views but sprawling woods and grassy meadows. Dancers waiting to run into the dance stood on new forest-green carpeting rather than the usual gray linoleum. And an impromptu audience watched from formal theater seating at the back. <P>The setting was the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, N.Y., a self- styled ``creative residence'' - a Yaddo for dance - taking shape along the Hudson River, with the Catskills rising in the distance. Two hours north of New York City and an hour south of the Albany airport, Kaatsbaan brims with a quiet sense of history.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/arts/06DUNN.html" TARGET=_blank><B>MORE...</B></A><P>

In case anyone's interested here is Kaatsbaan's website <BR> <A HREF="http://www.kaatsbaan.org/index.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.kaatsbaan.org/index.html</A> <P>We have a friend who will be attending the Extreme Ballet program in August, and we're planning on going up to observe.<P>It sounds as though it may turn out to be a wonderful spot.<BR>