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This page was last updated on 3-22-99.
aeolian ballet theatre/LA
will present a program of classical and innovative works at 8 PM on April 16 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse:
Les Sylphides choreography by Michel Fokine
staged by
Yuri Grigoriev
Spartacus Adagio choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
Fantasy choreography by John Clifford
staged by
Reid Olson
Fatum choreography by Stefan Wenta (premiere).
Enter the UCLA campus at Hilgard Ave. and Wyton (so. of Sunset Bl.). Park in Lot 3 ($5). Call UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310 825-2101 for more information.
photography by Frank Jackson
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In February, the prestigious
Ballet Nacional de Cuba
rehearsed at CPDC during their performance engagement in Los Angeles.
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From Mar. 28 - Apr. 3, the
Paul Taylor Intensive Dance Workshop
will take place at CPDC. Six dancers have been chosen to learn excerpts from Taylor's Aureole (1962). The workshop will be directed by Sharon Kinney, former member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and will culminate with a private rehearsal with Mr. Taylor followed by a
free informal showing for the dance community at the Alex Theatre on April 3.
For more information call (818) 243-7700
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Conjunctive Points
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For more information contact:
Alexandra Grigorieva, Studio Administrator
tel: 310 836-3962 - email:
cpdc3962@earthlink.net
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 American Repertory Dance Company
is dedicated to performing and documenting dances created by the visionaries who forged a new art form - modern dance.
Company artists are:
Nancy Colahan - founding member of Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance
Project
Bonnie Oda Homsey - former Martha Graham principal dancer
John Pennington - former Lewitzky Dance Company principal dancer
Risa Steinberg - former Jose Limon Dance Company principal dancer
Carole Vallesky - former Joffrey Ballet soloist
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On April 13, American Repertory Dance Company, resident company of CPDC, performed at the Getty Center in conjunction with the center's "Dance and Photography" exhibition. The reviews were outstanding:
"Brilliantly infusing body-sculpture with a profound spirituality...Pennington deserved a [Edward] Weston of his own to document...his remarkable artistry."
"Bonnie Oda Homsey found the core of...'The Desperate Heart' (1943) in a kind of restless onrush of motion...every fluid gestural statement unlocking another memory, another loss...Homsey made us see her character's past: people and objects and incidents very real to her, and to us, on an otherwise empty stage."
Lewis Segal - Los Angeles Times
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"She [Colahan] has the profound technical command and the powerful
personality to make any dance a vehicle for her own brilliance...In
Harmonica Breakdown she was at once happy-go-lucky, proud, and
strangely otherworldly; what defined Tenant Of The Street was the
mind-numbing lack of personality of its lost soul. Remarkable sensitivity
and range."
"These programs aren't anything like museum exhibitions of dusty relics
and curios. They're more like time-travel, living history or a treasure
hunt, providing miraculous reassurance that in a perilous era for
American dance, we can remain in contact with the prime creators of
modernism."
John Chapman - Santa Barbara News Press
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Award-winning choreographer
Otis Sallid's
Spiritual: My Soul Looks Back and Wonders How I Got Over
was performed at CPDC on Feb. 27-28 and Mar. 6-7.
The theatre work was directed and choreographed by Sallid and was produced by David Garfinkle, Jonathon Glick, Stacy Lefton-Glick, James Magidson, and Contrella Patrick-Henry. Musical direction was by Josef Powell, costumes by Ruth Carter, and Scenic Design by Tom Feelings.
The cast members were:
Vanessa Bell Calloway, Perry Brown, Victoria Burnett,Carol Dennis, Clinton Derricks Carroll, Charles Douglas, Aladrian Elmore, Leata Galloway, Robert Gee, Adam Jackson, John Jacquet Jr., Sabrina Johnson, Kyme, Melody Perry, Renda Pettis, Greg Poland, Louis Price, Eartha Robinson, Roberta Richey, Vermettya Royster, Ellis E. Williams, and Edna Wright.
Spiritual
introduced to the audience the music of early African-American spiritual music and explored the connection between song and experience.
The songs, dating back to the early 1600's, were passed down from generation to generation of African Americans for more than two hundred years and have left their mark on American popular music.
Sallid's work pays homage to our African American forefathers and mothers and helps us look back at their contributions as we move forward into the new millenium.
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Conjunctive Points
Dance Center
3631 Hayden Ave., Culver City, CA 90232
tel: (310) 836-3962 - fax: (310) 836-9831
email: cpdc3962@earthlink.net
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