Dance your heart out, Newport.In September, Newport, RI, was transformed into a dance-filled city when Island Moving Co. presented its third biennial site-specific dance and art festival, Open for Dancing. The event paired local and visiting choreographers with members of the Newport community, and for three days participants created and rehearsed a dance. Over the weekend, they performed the work for audience members who traveled from site to site--from a naval base A naval base primarily for support of the forces afloat, contiguous to a port or anchorage, consisting of activities or facilities for which the Navy has operating responsibilities, together with interior lines of communications and the minimum surrounding area necessary for local , to an 18th-century garden, to Newport's International Tennis Hall of Fame--by trolley. This year 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 choreographer Joanna Haigood and Swiss-born New Yorker Andrea Haenggi joined Island Moving Co.'s Michael Bolger and Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. tapper Brian Jones in celebrating the city's myriad natural and human-made locales. And to top the week off, there was free yoga, tai chi Tai Chi Definition T'ai chi is a Chinese exercise system that uses slow, smooth body movements to achieve a state of relaxation of both body and mind. , hula, and swing classes for anyone willing to shake a leg. www.islandmovingco.org. |
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