Moveable feasts coming to your town soon: we looked from coast to coast and found a cornucopia of dance for the fall season.[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] What's new this fall? Take a deep breath. The country will see Mark Morris' recent, full-evening triumph. The Martha Graham Dance Company, one of America's certifiable cer·ti·fi·a·ble adj. 1. That can or must be certified. Used of infectious, industrial, and other diseases that are required by law to be reported to health authorities. 2. cultural treasures, will travel widely during its 80th-anniversary year. Twyla Tharp's choreography will be all over the map. And one of the most innovative formulas for dance presentation in many years has inspired a self-confessed copy cat. That would be the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Fall for Dance festival, a clone of 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. Center's acclaimed autumn project. The ticket price, $10, remains the same in Southern California; and, so does the intoxicating in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. mix of dance styles on view Oct. 11-14 in Segerstrom Hall. The first program features Nina Rajarani Dance Creations, Susan Marshall & Company, Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. , and Via Katlehong Dance from South Africa. Stick around for the second bill with the Graham Company, Charles Moulton, LINES Ballet, Dutch National Ballet Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell (1961-1969), Rudi van Dantzig (1969-1991), Wayne Eagling (1991-2003) and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. , and Rennie Harris Puremovement. Amelia Rudolph's wall-scaling Project Bandaloop will perform outdoors free after the show. Autumn means that the Mark Morris Dance Group is hitting the road again. The company will bring its warmly received Mozart Dances (with pianists and full orchestra) to the West Coast for the first time, with engagements set for Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall Sept. 20-23 and Los Angeles' Music Center Oct. 20-21. The latter venue will celebrate the opening of its dance season with David Michalek's Slow Dancing, the astounding outdoor installation of slow-motion video portraits that lit up Lincoln Center Plaza in July (see "Dance Matters," July), starting Sept. 17. In some ways and in some places, the fall season will be a celebration of Twyla Tharp. Now that this most unclassifiable Adj. 1. unclassifiable - not possible to classify unidentifiable - impossible to identify of great choreographers has licensed her dances to several of our leading ballet companies, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of a Tharp Festival. That someone, Cal Performances director Robert Cole, has booked three troupes who will fill Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall with the choreographer's vintage dances. Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, absent from the Bay Area for several years, will reprise Deuce Coupe, its Beach Boys megahit of yesteryear, and complement it with Laura Dean's Sometimes It Snows in April and Robert Joffrey's Pas des Deesses (Oct. 4-6). Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet Miami City Ballet was created in 1986 with former New York City Ballet principal dancer Edward Villella helming the company. The Miami City Ballet flourishes as one of America's most respected Balanchine-style based ballet companies. visits Oct. 26-28 with Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs and with Balanchine's Agon, leavened by Tharp's In the Upper Room. American Ballet Theatre'$ week (Nov. 7-11) adds Sinatra Suite and Baker's Dozen, surrounding them with West Coast premieres by Jorma Elo and Benjamin Millepied, Robbins' Fancy Free, and the company's first staging of Balanchine's Verdi diversion, Ballo della Regina. Panels and symposia will accompany all the Tharpiana. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The touring plans for the Martha Graham Dance Company will take this American institution cross-country to 12 cities, starting with Seattle and ending in Lewisburg, WV. The organization promises Graham perennials like Lamentation lamentation, n a prayer expressing affliction or sorrow and requesting defense, retribution, or comfort. , Appalachian Spring, and Errand Into the Maze. Another American classic, the Paul Taylor Dance Company Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographers of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries"[1] , will also be traveling--to 11 cities, starting Oct. 3 in Portland, OR, and Oct. 5-6 in Long Beach, CA, and including a run at Boston's Shubert Theatre Nov. 30-Dec. 2. Yet another of our venerable modern dance groups, the Limon Dance Company, will be featured when it plays Philadelphia's Zellerbach Theatre Dec. 6-8. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will not rest this fall. The troupe opens the UCLA Live season with Blind Date Oct. 12-13 at Royce Hall and launches the season's programming at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Oct. 19-21 with the acclaimed Chapel/Chapter. From there, it's a cross-country jump to New Jersey's Montclair State University History Montclair State was established in 1908 as "Montclair Normal School" in response to a growing need for teachers. It was renamed "Montclair State Teachers College" in 1927, when it developed a program of educating secondary school teachers through a Bachelor of Arts , where the crew will deliver three different programs, including a premiere Nov. 30-Dec. 2. Look for Jones/Zane in Providence, RI, Sept. 28-29 and at Iowa City's Hancher Auditorium Nov. 7 too. The season will also offer a series of company debuts. Karole Armitage, the high priestess of bent classicism, will make her overdue bow in San Francisco Oct. 13-14. The offerings of Armitage Gone! Dance include Ligeti Essays (to scores by Gyorgy Ligeti) and the Bartok-influenced Time is the echo of an axe within a wood. Up in Portland, OR, White Bird Dance on Oct. 11-13 welcomes BalletLab, a company from Melbourne, Australia, directed by Phillip Adams, who has worked with Sara Rudner and Donna Uchizono. Adams' new Origami is said to include eye-popping decor. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How about something completely different? Well, you might try Faustin Linyekula/Les Studios Kabako. The all-male Congolese company aroused keen interest during its American appearances two seasons ago, and there's no reason why this highly individualized specimen of dance theater shouldn't prove equally as provocative in the new, evening-length Festival of Lies. You can see it in standard format or come for what is called a festival event and is expected to last from 6 P.M. to midnight and beyond. Linyekula kicks off its tour at Philadelphia's Painted Bride, Sept. 13-15, then travels to Los Angeles' REDCAT REDCAT The Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater Oct. 24-27, Minneapolis' Cedar Cultural Center Nov. 1-3, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center Nov. 8-10, BRIC in Brooklyn Nov. 14-17, Albuquerque's North Fourth Art Center Nov. 23-24, and Seattle's On the Boards Nov. 29-Dec. 1. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Up in Canada, a major celebration gets underway this fall. The phenomenal dance artist Margie Gillis will mark her 35th anniversary of solo performing by launching an extensive tour of the western provinces and the Yukon. Gillis, that rare individual whose popularity has never excluded creative freedom, will tour with three programs, including a stone's poem, a new work co-choreographed with Paola Styron. Gillis begins her tour Oct. 13 in St. Albert, Alberta St. Albert is a city in Alberta, located northwest of Edmonton, on the Sturgeon River. It was originally settled as a French Catholic community, and is now an affluent suburb. , and winds up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nov. 30-Dec. 1. Angelenos may likely feel they're at the center of the universe Nov. 8-11, when Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to UCLA for the first time in eight years. This time around, the master of expressionist movement theater presents the North American premiere of Ten Chi (2004), another of the company's choreographic travelogues, this one fashioned after a sojourn in Japan. The stage will be bathed in--you might have guessed--cherry blossoms. Ten Chi moves on to Berkeley Nov. 16-18. Sometimes, West Coast dance fans have all the luck. Folks in the Washington, D.C., area don't have anything to complain about either. The Suzanne Farrell Ballet will be in residence at the Kennedy Center Nov. 20-25 with a pair of compelling Balanchine programs. The first features the ritualistic and erotic Bugaku, Symphony in Three Movements, and divertissements from Don Quixote. The second includes Bugaku, Ballade ballade (bəläd`), in literature, verse form developed in France in the 14th and 15th cent. The ballade usually contains three stanzas of eight lines with three rhymes and a four-line envoy (a short, concluding stanza). , Pithoprakta (one of the reconstruction works from the Balanchine Preservation Initiative), and Chaconne cha·conne n. 1. A slow, stately dance of the 18th century or the music for it. 2. A form consisting of variations based on a reiterated harmonic pattern. . The latter is a collaboration with the Cincinnati Ballet (Cincinnati is Farrell's hometown) and that company will perform this lovely, Gluck-inspired work in its home season Oct. 22-Nov. 10. The hits and enigmas will keep coming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival. The dance season opens (Oct. 2-7) with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Traditional Chinese: 雲門舞集; Simplified Chinese: 云门舞集) is a modern dance group based in Taiwan. of Taiwan in Lin Hwai-Min's Wild Cursive. Inspired by Chinese calligraphy, this is the final panel of Cursive: A Trilogy. The company's performances last fall on the West Coast generated cheers for the choreography's mix of rigor and sensuality and the dazzling decor, constructed solely of paper, through which black ink seeps during the performance. Then, on Oct. 16, 18-20, Spain's Compania Nacional de Danza under Nacho Duato makes its belated 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. debut. The program, notably a dance called Castrati (which is about what you think it's about), is sure to generate controversy. Cast No Shadow (Harvey Theater; Nov. 6, 8-10), a U.S. premiere, is a collaboration between English choreographer Russell Maliphant and filmmaker Isaac Julien. On Nov. 7-10 (at the Gilman Opera House), Finland's Tero Saarinen and his company join with Joel Cohen's Boston Camerata for Borrowed Light, inspired by the American Shaker community. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] However, if world dance is your pleasure, there will be much from which to choose this fall. Tango Buenos Aires performs at Fairfax, Virginia's George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. Oct. 27-28, then heads west to Orange County Performing Arts Center The Orange County Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex located in Costa Mesa, California. It is the home of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Opera Pacific, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Pacific Chorale. Nov. 8-11. Ballet Folklorico de Mexico Ballet Folklorico de Mexico is a folkloric ballet ensemble in Mexico City. For five decades it has presented dances in costumes that reflect the traditional culture of Mexico. The ensemble has appeared under the name, Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez. comes to Brooklyn College Oct. 13, NJ Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. Oct. 26, George Mason University Oct. 6-7, the Kimmel Center in Philly Oct. 14, and Appalachian State University History Appalachian State University began in the summer of 1899 when a group of citizens of Watauga County, NC, under the leadership of D.D. Dougherty and B.B. Dougherty, began a movement to establish a good school in Boone, NC. Land was donated by D.B. in Boone, NC, Oct. 31. Noche Flamenca debuts at Stanford University Oct. 17. Ballet Hispanico performs with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Kennedy Center Nov. 5. And Gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. Cudumani offers Odalan Bali Nov. 18 at UCLA's Royce Hall. Allan Ulrich, a Dance Magazine senior advising editor, is a freelance writer based in the Bay Area. |
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