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14 July 2011

A Paul Taylor premiere at ADF, always a joyous event

taylor works with michael truscovec, annamaria mazzini

A new work by Paul Taylor is always an occasion, and “The Uncommitted,” will be the veteran dance maker’s 18th premiere at the American Dance Festival. An intriguing title from Taylor … [...]

6 July 2009

Twyla, Laura, and me

A personal memoir of the impact of the strong female choreographers Twyla Tharp and Laura Dean on a young dancer in the late 1970s. [...]

29 June 2009

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

Visions of Israel inevitably surface while watching “Decadance,” Ohad Naharin’s perennial greatest-hits collection of choreographic output since the 1980s. [...]

16 June 2009

arts•meme to attend summer dancefest

I am joining one dozen dance writers from across the country as a fellow at the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts “Dance Journalism Institute” held at the American Dance Festival at Duke University. [...]