Preview: Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater.A leader in Russia's contemporary dance scene, Olga Pona brings her troupe from Ghelyabinsk to the U.S., stopping at 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. (June 14-16) and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas The International Festival of Arts and Ideas takes place on the New Haven Green (in New Haven, Connecticut) every summer for fifteen days in mid-June. Most of the free events on The Green in New Haven, CT (June 20-22). Her new piece, The Other Side of the River, makes funny and poignant use of wheeling tables, steaming irons, cigarettes, and a bandoneon ban·do·ne·on n. A small accordion especially popular in Latin America. [American Spanish bandoneón, from German Bandonion, Bandoneon : Heinrich Band player. At ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS. (2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit. , her appearance is part of a mini Russian festival that also includes Vladimir Golubev, an intriguing former dancer of Chelyabinsk, and the zany Iguan Dance Theatre, which emerged from St. Petersburg's avant-garde music circles. See www.olgapona.com and www.americandancefestival.org. |
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