JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski closes its doors.From its first performance in 1979 at St. Clements Church in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. to its final performances this month at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski has been a vital, exuberant force on the contemporary American dance scene. The company has expanded and re-defined our idea of jazz dance and given us a choreographic language capable of communication, innovation, and depth. Although his dancing is rooted in the vernacular forms that are at the heart of jazz, his movement research and choreographic risk-taking result in work that both honors and subverts tradition. Buraczeski's is an original choreographic voice--the movement is weighted, angular, swinging, pulsing, rhythmically complex, coiled, curvy, and flowing. The company's repertory includes pieces created to swing, klezmer klezmer (klĕz`mər), form of instrumental folk music developed in the Eastern European Jewish community. The style had its beginnings in the Middle Ages; its name is a Yiddishized version of the Hebrew klei zemir , blues, and compositions by some of the jazz greats. JAZZDANCE has appeared regularly at the Joyce Theater in 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 , the Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, and the American Dance Festival The American Dance Festival is a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, and a school for dance currently held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. . It has contributed enormously to the dance scene in Minneapolis, where it has been based since 1992. "Running a dance company for 25 years feels like more than one lifetime," says Buraczeski. "This decision has been some time in coming, as the things that a dance company needs to remain vital and healthy have slowly fallen away. The bottom line is that I can no longer provide dancers with what they deserve, and that is quite painful." Buraczeski is proud of all that his company has achieved and is now looking to the future. He has accepted a position as visiting artist at Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. in Dallas, where he will continue to choreograph and teach. |
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