Festivals and California Dance.

The American College Dance Festival Association's schedule for 1999 includes three days of workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, and adjudicated performances at each site. ACDFA is committed to supporting and promoting college and university dance through sponsorship of regional and national festivals. Central to the educational mission of ADCFA is the adjudication process, through which students and faculty receive feedback from a panel of nationally recognized dance professionals in an open and constructive procedure. These festivals are the primary means for college and university dance departments to perform outside their own academic setting and to become exposed to the diversity of the national college dance scene. The ACDFA 1999 schedule includes:

March 3-7

Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 16057; contact Nora Ambrosio, [phone]; fax [phone].

March 4-7

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523; contact Jane Slusarski-Harris, [phone]; fax [phone].

March 6-9

Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-5700; contact Laurie Merriman-Thompson, [phone]; fax [phone].

March 10-13

University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034-5209; contact Jamie Jacobson, Performing Dance Program, HPERD Dept. Box 189, 100: N. University Drive; [phone] ext. 5231; fax [phone].

March 10-13

Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL 32211; contact Angie Hollis; Art, Theatre Arts & Dance, 2800 University Blvd. N [phone]; fax [phone].

March 24-28

Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD 21532-1099; contact Barry Fischer, Dance Department; [phone]: fax [phone].

March 24-28

Cal State University at Hayward, Hayward, CA 94542; contact Laura Renaud-Wilson, Theatre & Dance Department, Robinson Hall 220, [phone]; fax [phone].

The first ACDFA festival was held January 14-17, at Springfield College, Springfield, MA 01109-3797.

The American Dance Festival will hold its third Dancing for the Camera International Festival of Film Video Dance in Durham, North Carolina, as part of its 1999 season, June 10-July 24.

ADF is soliciting entries in three categories: (1) choreography for the camera, original work made specifically for the medium or a staged work remade for camera; (2) documentary, productions which include interviews or other educational elements in addition to choreography; and (3) experimental, work that extends the boundaries of the medium and can exist only in the realm of video or film. Deadline for submissions is March 8, 1999. Send them to ADF's New York office, 1697 Broadway, Room 900, New York, NY 10019-5904. For further information contact Swati Argard [phone] or e-mail: adfny@AmericanDance Festival.org.

Point Park College president Katherine Henderson and Ronald Allan-Lindblom, chairman of the fine, applied and performing arts department, have made the following announcements concerning the Pittsburgh-based school:

1. PPC will institute a three-year course, master of arts in dance, geared to recent graduates and midcareer professionals beginning in the fall of 2003.

2. The Playhouse Dance Theatre, the college's dance group, has been renamed the Playhouse Dance Company. It plans four productions per season. Student choreography showcases will be offered in the fall and spring.

3. The Playhouse Dance Company's theater has been renamed the Pittsburgh Playhouse of Point Park College.

4. The department of fine, applied and performing arts has been renamed Point Park Conservatory of Performing Arts.

Point Park College is at 201 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15221; [phone]; fax [phone].

Karen Dacko

The California State University at Long Beach Department of Dance, College of the Arts, has announced its spring concert series: February 5-6, Mark Haim in The Goldberg Variations; March 13-14, River North Dance Company; March 18-21, CSULB Contemporary Dance; May 5-9, CSULB Dance Company, and May 21-22, Jeff Slayton, Casey Carney & Friends in "An Evening of Dance." All performances will take place at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater at CSULB, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840.

The Department of World Arts and Cultures and its Center for Intercultural Performance of the University of California at Los Angeles presented Ah Q! in three December performances. Based upon the book, The Real Story of Ah Q!, by Lu Xun, the performances were a dance-theater collaboration built around China's best-known literary character as adapted by choreographer Victoria Marks and playwright Xu Ying. The production was an outgrowth of the CIP's 1996 and 1997 Asia Pacific Performance Exchange of international artists and writers summer residency program at UCLA.