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KLMNO dance} fall arts preview
Season also boasts Canadian, Czech, and Indian talents
by Sarah Kaufman D
SEPTEMBER
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18 — International Children’s Festival At Wolf Trap, Filene Center. Through Sept. 19.
18 — Golden Dragon Acrobats from China Acrobatics combined with dance. At Wolf Trap, Filene Center.
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24 — A Show of Hands Season Preview Preview of the 2010-11 season, including a participatory art installation. At Jane Franklin Dance Studio.
25 — Arachne Aerial Arts with Tzveta Kassabova Andrea Burkholder and Sharon Witting together with Tzveta Kassabova present the installation “Mixed Use Space,” which transforms the built environment, shifting perceptions and perspectives. Through Sept. 26. At Dance Place.
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28 — Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia De Danza The company celebrates Mexico’s 200th anniversary with new
choreography, including “3.Fourteen Sixteen,” “Waters of Forgetfulness” and “EX-STASIS.” Through Sept. 29. At Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater.
OCTOBER
1— Bowen McCauley Dance 15th Anniversary Celebration & Performance At Signature Theatre.
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1 — Unspoken Words Dance Latin America. Presented by El Teatro de Danza
Contemporanea de El Salvador (TDC) TDC, in one of the first Latin American Dance festivals in the District, presents a multifaceted program of classical and contemporary dance exploring the unspoken stories from El Salvador, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia. Through Oct. 3. At Dance Place.
2 — BMD 15th Anniversary Celebration & Performance At GALA Theatre-Tivoli.
3— Prelude Ceremony and Performances: MetroDC Dance Awards Featuring the Pola
Nirenska Honors. At Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage.
6— VIP Reception and Should I Quit My DayJob? Dance-Off Finals hosted by Dance/MetroDC. At Harman Center for the Arts, Sidney Harman Hall.
6— Queen of Indian Dance: Balasaraswati featuring in person Douglas Knight, author, and Aniruddha Knight, Bharata-Natyam dancer. At Freer Gallery, Meyer Auditorium.
6— Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo The all-male ballet troupe performs a parody of classical dance. Through Oct. 7. At Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater.
7— BSO SuperPopsGotta Dance! Jack Everly conducts a performance that explores movement and music as dozens of dancers perform Celtic dance, tap, ballroom, tango, ballet and others. At Music Center at Strathmore.
ance-wise, fall swings in with a strong female profile and a Latino top note. To which we say, bring it on!
Simply put, women rock the new season. Let’s start with the Kennedy Center’s feminine per- spective. First up is Mexico’s pro- vocative Tania Pérez-Salas Com- pañia de Danza, Sept. 28 and 29 at the Terrace Theater. Pérez-Salas’s works are fueled by rich visual im- agery and bold theatrical effects — her “Waters of Forgetfulness” is danced on a flooded stage. She’ll be followed Oct. 28-30 by
Brazil’s Companhia de Danca Deborah Colker, a woman with a king-size capacity to surprise. Then there are the “Five First
Ladies of Dance,” an inspired gathering of revered elder divas, Nov. 2 in the Terrace Theater: choreographers Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the majestic performer Carmen de Lavallade and Sen- egal’s Germaine Acogny, who is called “the mother of contempo- rary African dance.” Hubbard Street Dance Chicago comes to the Eisenhower Theater Nov. 12 and 13 with a work by the esteemed Czech dancemaker Jiri Kylian, but we’re most excited to see “Untouched” by Aszure Bar- ton, a promising young Canadian with a confident, stylish voice of her own. Then there’s Cynthia Word, who has been single-handedly keeping Isadora Duncan’s legacy alive in the Washington area, with her ambitious program of Duncan solos, music and theater. Continuing on the Latino front,
El Teatro de Danza Contempora- nea de El Salvador performs a mini-festival of Latin American dance with works from its home- land as well as from Cuba, Mexico and Columbia Oct. 1 through 3 at Dance Place. GALA celebrates Spain when it hosts Fuego Fla- menco VI, its sixth annual fla- menco festival, Nov. 18-Dec. 5, fea- turing Madrid’s José Barrios and the Spanish Dance Society. You can’t fit the whole season in
a box, of course. Some of what promises to be the best parts are decidedly out-of-the-box. Keep your eye out for these: The gutsiest group: In a city of
overachievers, CityDance Ensem- ble fits right in. This troupe draws oxygen from a tough artistic chal- lenge. In between State Depart- ment-sponsored jaunts around the world, the group run by for- mer Hill staffer and foreign policy wonk Paul Gordon Emerson has been steadily building up its rep- ertoire of important modern- dance works. To a growing collec- tion of works by the famed Paul Taylor, CityDance adds Taylor’s 1975 troubling and joyous master- piece, “Esplanade,” with music by Bach. CityDance performs this and other works Nov. 6 and 7 at Strathmore, in its black-box Stu- dio 405.
Only in America: Where else could a young man who grew up in an impoverished, low-caste fundamentalist Christian family in India get a degree in computer science and discover dance? Not just any dance, but Barata Na- tyam, which is Hindu-based clas- sical Indian dance — at once a dis- covery of his cultural heritage and a departure from his Methodist upbringing. By day, University of Maryland grad Daniel Phoenix
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Leading ladies and Latinos
CHRISTIAN GANET BOLD: Mexico’s Tania Pérez-Salas brings her dance company to the Kennedy Center on Sept. 28-29.
Singh, whose passport is stamped “backward class,” is a computer consultant. By night, he runs Dakshina, a company devoted to Indian dance as well as — here’s the newest twist — the dark social commentary of mid-20th-century choreographer Anna Sokolow. Her works are little performed nowadays; Singh fell in love with her style at a concert years ago and will present a full program of rarely seen Sokolow dances Nov. 4 through 5 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. He’ll also present his annual fall festival of Indian Dance, Oct. 8 and 9 at the Lincoln Theatre, with Mallika Sa- rabhai and Anita Ratnam. Only in America, part two: Da-
ZAIN SHAH
A 1930S ICON: “Charlie Chan and the Mystery of Love” from Dana Tai Soon Burgess comes to Dance Place Oct. 22-24.
na Tai Soon Burgess has long tackled issues of the Asian Amer- ican experience in dance, but “Charlie Chan and the Mystery of Love”— Oct. 22-24 at Dance Place — marks his most autobiographi- cal effort. Growing up as a Korean American in Santa Fe, N.M., Bur- gess was fascinated by Chan’s movies on TV, and his new work entwines his imaginary friend- ship with this Hollywood icon — a detective who could solve all the problems of life — with Burgess’s ongoing journey of belonging.
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7 — VelocityDC Dance Festival featuring the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Washington Ballet, Liz
Lerman Dance Exchange, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Helanius Wilkins and others. At Sidney Harman Hall. Through Oct. 9.
8— Enchanted April At Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dance Theater. Through Oct. 16.
8 — Dakshina Dance Company presents Mallika Sarabhai Sarabhai and her full company
present her production of “Sampradayam.” At Lincoln Theatre.
9 — Dakshina Dance Company presents Anita Ratnam in “Faces” A dance interpretation
of human range of emotion. At Lincoln Theatre.
9— “Deez Nutz 2010” This production explores sex and relationships from the D.C. male perspective. For mature audiences only. Through Oct. 10. At Dance Place.
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