Preview: Liss Fain Dance.With The Flood, Liss Fain fain adv. 1. Happily; gladly: "I would fain improve every opportunity to wonder and worship, as a sunflower welcomes the light" Henry David Thoreau. 2. is following a path she has pursued for close to 20 years--unspectacular but quietly focused modern-influenced ballet choreography steeped in music that is as rigorous as it is attention-demanding. For the seven-dancer Flood she turned to excerpts of Dutch avant-garde composer Louis Audriessen's opera Writing to Vermeer, set in 17th-century Holland when a series of governmental decisions pushed the country into disaster. She has again signed on longtime collaborator Matthew Antaky, who has created some of his most boundary-stretching visual designs for Liss Fain Dance. The double bill also reprises REPRISES. The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like, are called reprises, because they are taken back; when we speak of the clear yearly value of an estate, we say it is worth so much a year ultra reprises, besides all reprises. 2. last year's shimmering shim·mer intr.v. shim·mered, shim·mer·ing, shim·mers 1. To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash. 2. When Still, set to the dancerly dan·cer·ly adj. Having or displaying the movements, skills, or knowledge of a dancer or the dance: "impressionistic doodles, symphonic splashes and dancerly flourishes" Los Angeles Times. rhythms of Monteverdi madrigals. June 8-9. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. www.ybca.org. |
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