BERMAN TO LEAVE TAYLOR COMPANY.Rachel Berman has announced she will be leaving the Paul Taylor Dance Company Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographers of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries"[1] after the season finale in Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. in August. "It was a decision I thought about long and hard," she explained. "There are so many other things I want to explore. I feel simply that it is time to `leave the nest' and make my way in the world." The company's spring and summer schedule includes a residency in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; performances in California, at Jacob's Pillow, and at the American Dance Festival The American Dance Festival is a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, and a school for dance currently held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. ; and tours in Cologne, Germany, and Santiago, Chile Santiago, officially Santiago de Chile (Spanish: (helpinfo)), is the capital of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation (Greater Santiago). , where Berman will stay on to teach a workshop. Berman first appeared with the Taylor company in Melbourne in 1989, when she was hired to replace an injured dancer. She was relentlessly typecast in the peppy roles usually reserved for short, cute women, but when Taylor pushed her, he discovered an almost unlimited range. Asked how many of his creations of the past decade he has set on Berman, Taylor answered, "All of them. She's just one of the easiest to work with. She always understands what the dance is supposed to be about." Berman has no definite plans for the fall, although she says she might spend some time in Hawaii, where she grew up. "My perfect life would be to commute back and forth between New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Honolulu," she said. "I will always be part of the Taylor family. I will set his dances and help him further develop programs within our school." * CandoCo Dance Company performs as part of the Art & Soul Festival in Los Angeles, May 28 to June 2. The festival, in its third year, presents hundreds of performing and visual artists with disabilities, as well as ArtCareers 2000, which provides information to artists with disabilities on career options in the arts. For information, call (310) 385-0297 or visit the Web site at www.artandsoul.org. |
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