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Random dance.


"Random" is a misnomer for Wayne McGregor's modern company, which initiates a West Coast tour this January. McGregor's focused blending of high-tech stagecraft stage·craft  
n.
Skill in the techniques and devices of the theater.


stagecraft
the art or skill of producing or staging plays.
See also: Drama

Noun 1.
 and ditto dancing looks bold, balletic, and British. The triple bill features the company's hallmarks: electronic music, projections, and dramatic lighting. Polar Sequences, created with fellow Brits Shobana Jeyasingh and Rui Horta, includes sleekly intense dancing and witty, onstage cooking. A McGregor solo and the first half of Nemesis complete the bill. Apocryphal a·poc·ry·phal  
adj.
1. Of questionable authorship or authenticity.

2. Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . .
 and angry, Nemesis is, McGregor says, an exploration of evil. Tour stops include Portland State University (part of White Bird Presents PSU PSU - power supply unit  season), University of California-Riverside, UC San Diego, and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
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Title Annotation:Preview
Author:West, Martha Ullman
Publication:Dance Magazine
Date:Jan 1, 2005
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