Curtain up.Dance Theater Workshop Dance Theater Workshop is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. in downtown Manhattan is turning 40. The anniversary gala on June 12 will celebrate not only DTW's longevity, but also the potential for any small, dancer-driven cooperative to grow into a major player on an international scale. For me, DTW DTW Dynamic Time Warping DTW Dance Theatre Workshop (New York, NY) DTW Depth to Water (denotes depth to water in monitoring wells) DTW DoDIIS Trusted Workstation DTW Development Technology Workshop will always be a special place. I started seeing dance there when I was in college because one of my teachers, Jack Moore, was a co-founder. After I graduated (Bennington College Bennington College, at Bennington, Vt.; coeducational (originally for women); chartered 1925, opened 1932. Its curriculum is based on individual interests and needs. ) in 1969, I headed down to 20th Street to show my work to Jeff Duncan This article is about the guitarist. For the baseball player, see Jeff Duncan (baseball player). Jeff Duncan is a former metal guitarist for Odin. He currently plays in Armored Saint and DC4. , and in the process met Rudy Perez, the first New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of choreographer I danced with. Jeff's loft provided a nest of safely and a family of artists--and there was always a jar of Tasmanian honey in the kitchen. Not only did I perform my early choreography there (that's me, below, in 1971), but I danced with Jeff Duncan, Jack Moore, and many other DTW choreographers as well. The small size of the studio, its extreme coziness, and the steam pipes in the corner were all fodder for dreaming up new dances. I taught there too, and in one of my classes was a skinny kid named David White. He went on to lead DTW in exciting new directions. He transformed the little collective into an American institution that assists countless dance artists and helps small theaters across the country expand their audiences for dance. In "Only Yesterday" (p. 44), Barbara Roan roan a coat color consisting of a relatively uniform mixture of white and colored hairs, giving a 'silvered' hue; self-describing colors are red-roan, blue-roan, chestnut roan. recalls the early years at DTW, and we hear from other choreographers who called DTW their artistic home. In this issue, for the first time, you will find an up-to-date Dance Magazine Annual Directory listing (formerly published separately as Sterns' Annual Directory). This comprehensive directory has long been a touchstone for people in the dance field as both a resource and a practical guide. We also bring you Clive Barnes' incisive commentary on The Royal Ballet, profiles of three of The Royal's ballerinas, a feature on the maverick choreographer Joe Goode, and a jampacked "Vital Signs." So there are lots of reasons you'll want to hang on to this issue for months, or years, to come. WENDY PERRON Per´ron n. 1. (Arch.) An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; - usually applied to mediævel or later structures of some architectural pretensions. , EDITOR IN CHIEF wperron@dancemagazine.com |
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