DANCE UMBRELLA CLOSES.Boston's Dance Umbrella Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of modern and contemporary dance, held in London every October. First held in 1978, companies such as London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Shen Wei Dance Arts perform at venues , New England's major modern dance presenter, closed at the end of April, citing severe financial distress Financial distress Events preceding and including bankruptcy, such as violation of loan contracts. . The organization, which was founded twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. ago by Jeremy Alliger, presented its final show about a year after Alliger and the Umbrella's board decided to part ways. Boston native Sean Curran brought his company to the Emerson Majestic Theater to ring down the curtain. Also on the final bill was dance theater The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German expressionist dance. Its most influential performers are Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke. duo Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky. The performance marked the end of an epoch. Under Alliger, Boston became an important stop on the international contemporary dance circuit, sponsoring nearly annual performances by the Mark Morris Dance Group, until recently, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane company, as well as innovative festivals devoted to aerial dance Aerial modern dance is a sub-genre of modern dance which was first recognized in the United States in the 1970s. The choreography incorporates specialty apparatus often attached to the ceiling, allowing performers to explore space in three-dimensions. , wheelchair dance, and jazz and hip-hop artists. Alliger served as executive and artistic director of Dance Umbrella until February 2000, when he became artistic consultant in charge of booking what became the final season. Paul Organisak, former executive director of American College American College is the name of:
"For over a year, I haven't been involved in any way," says Alliger. "It's a sad ending of an era." For the past year, Alliger and the board have struggled to hammer out the legal details of their separation. Throughout the difficult period, Alliger attended Dance Umbrella performances and, since he curated what proved to be the final season, continued to make his customary curtain speech curtain speech n. A talk given in front of the curtain at the conclusion of a theatrical performance. . Dance Umbrella's founder says he's moving on. He has been working for the past year to create his own producing company. "Not another Dance Umbrella structure," he says. He has been working on three projects, including touring versions of the Aerial and Wheelchair Festivals and a jazz/hip-hop production. Also under consideration is an invitation from the Israeli government to organize a festival of Israeli dance companies. With the current turmoil at the Boston Ballet over the sudden departure of artistic director-designate Maina Gielgud and the demise of Dance Umbrella, the Boston dance scene has been much impoverished. Fleet-Boston Celebrity Series, under the direction of Martha H. Jones, remains the only presenter of major touring dance companies. Is it possible that the past two decades will be remembered as the city's golden age of dance? |
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