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Rhythms of the sea.


No music means more to the Portuguese than fado, songs of love and loss born in the slums of Lisbon. So for choreographer cho·re·o·graph  
v. cho·re·o·graphed, cho·re·o·graph·ing, cho·re·o·graphs

v.tr.
1. To create the choreography of: choreograph a ballet.

2.
 Vasco Wellekamp, artistic director of Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporaneo, it was natural to set his new work Amaramalia Abandono, coming to the Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a  October 12 to 17, to the music of Amalia Rodrigues, fado's most celebrated interpreter A high-level programming language translator that translates and runs the program at the same time. It translates one program statement into machine language, executes it, and then proceeds to the next statement. . "We've always been a seafaring people," he said, "and fado reproduces the rhythms of the sea. I use those lush and fierce rhythms in my dance. There are images of repression and anguish from our history, but mainly I want people to see and feel fado's soulful soul·ful  
adj.
Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.



soulful·ly adv.
 poetry in the movement." See www.joyce org.
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Title Annotation:New York Notebook; fado
Author:Gladstone, Valerie
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUPR
Date:Oct 1, 2004
Words:117
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