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Driving 'rain'.


[NY] The current doyenne doy·enne  
n.
A woman who is the eldest or senior member of a group.



[French, feminine of doyen, senior member; see doyen.]

Noun 1.
 of contemporary dance in Europe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) studied from 1978 to 1980 at MUDRA in Brussels, the school linked to La Monnaie and to Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the XXth Century. In 1981, she attended the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. , brings her company, Rosas, back to Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival November 12-15. De Keersmaeker, who attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts School of the Arts is the name of several schools (usually high schools) that are devoted to the fine arts, including:
  • Brooklyn High School of the Arts, Brooklyn, New York
  • Charleston County School of the Arts, Charleston, South Carolina
 and brought Rosas to New York for the first time in 1986, returns to BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised.  with Rain, set to Steve Reich's propulsive music played live by Ictus. Like Drumming, her driving, evening-length piece presented by BAM two years ago, Rain is more concerned with pattern and rhythm than the text-infused pieces that dominate European Tanztheater. Asked what draws him to her work. Joseph V. Melillo. BAM's executive producer, said, "It's her extraordinary originality and movement invention." See www.bam.org.
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Title Annotation:dance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music festival; New York Notebook
Author:Mattingly, Kate
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Nov 1, 2003
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