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Summer Feats Afoot
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| Pilobolus: Making
six equal two |
| Photo: John Kane |
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The American Dance Festival celebrates its
seventy-first season June 10 through July 24, featuring forty dances
by seventeen dance companies; eleven are performing at ADF for
the first time. The ADF, founded in Bennington, Vermont, in 1934,
took up summer residence at Duke in 1978.
Events include ten world premieres, three U.S. premieres, three
special ADF productions, and two new performance series. Eight
of the ten world premieres were commissioned by ADF through the
Doris Duke Awards for New Work, made possible by a grant from the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
On June 27, Eiko & Koma were presented with the 2004 Samuel
H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award honoring choreographers
for lifetime achievement in modern dance. The pair's first performance
in the U.S. was in 1976. Their ADF debut, "Beam," was
performed in 1983.
For information and tickets:www.americandancefestival.org
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