Home runs covering all the bases.STEP AFRIKA! When it comes to rhythm, Step Afrika!'s got it in their soles. This Washington D.C.-based company specializes in step, the foot-stompin', hand-clappin' dance form based on African call-and-response traditions and popularized by African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. fraternities and sororities
The terms "fraternity" and "sorority" (from the Latin words frater and soror . But their performances are tinged with other styles as well, including hip hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. and South African gumboot dancing. Fresh choreography, video elements, and a pulsating electronics score add to what writer Sarah Kaufman called the "plaster-you-against-your-seat-force" of this group. Nov. 11 - 12 at the Dance Place. www.danceplace.org.--Jenny Holm KATHAK AT THE CROSSROADS: INNOVATION WITHIN TRADITION To celebrate the 25th anniversary of his California-based company, dancer-teacher Chitresh Das has organized a three-day festival focusing on the most theatrical strain of Indian classical dance and its evolution through two centuries. Das has invited several of kathak's most illustrious practitioners--including Birju Maharaj, Kumudini Lakhia, and Saswati Sen--as well as emerging dancers to participate. The festival will place the emphasis on the kathak solo and the ways in which performers can increase the visibility of their tradition. Academic presentations, lecture-demonstrations, and panel discussions will complement the dancing; and, yes, students from Das' own school will appear, too. Sept. 28-30, Yerba Buena yerba buena (yĕr`bə bwā`nə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. Center for the Arts, San Francisco. www.kathak.org, of--ALLAN ULRICH SACHIYO ITO Ito, city (1990 pop. 71,223), Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Izu Peninsula and the Sagami Sea. It is an important fishing port and hot spring resort. See indium. & COMPANY What better way to celebrate an anniversary than with a piece honoring prosperity and longevity? Sachiyo Ito opens her 50th anniversary concert with Pine Tree, a piece for the entire company, as well as several solos for herself. Leading the first troupe to bring Okinawan dance to 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 , Ito continues the tradition by inviting guest artists from Japan who thrill with their powerful Shishimai (Lion Dance). Offering Kabuki dances, a retrospective of Ito's work, and world premieres, the program offers a glimpse of the span of Japanese dance. Sept. 30 at Pace University, NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City . www.dancejapan.com.--Kina Poon poon n. Any of several trees of the genus Calophyllum, of southern Asia, having light hard wood used for masts and spars. [Sinhalese p WASHINGTON BALLET Twyla Tharp's exhilarating In the Upper Room, set to propulsive music by Philip Glass, is a dance trip you can never get enough of. Robbins' romantic In the Night is about three couples whose relationships range from serene to rebellious. Both works are so beautiful that you don't have a right to expect them to be on the same program. But they will be, from Sept. 27-Oct. 1 at the Kennedy Center. An added bonus is Oui, Non (above), a premier by artistic director Septime Webre with famed cabaret singer Karen Akers performing live. See www.washingtonballet.org. |
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