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Stockholm 59[degrees]/North at Jacob's Pillow.


Stockholm 59[degrees]/North, a contemporary troupe of top dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773. Sources
  • http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/ballet/swedes/swedeintro.html
, brings a program of anticipated gems to its third engagement at Jacob's Pillow. In Pillow tradition, men play leading roles, reflecting on mother/son relationships in the U.S. premiere of Jorma Elo's In My Dream Team, set to triumphant music by Carl Maria von Weber. And Kenneth Kvarnstrom's hilarious all-male Carmen Carmen

throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190]

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Carmen

the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr.
!? will be back.

In Orjan Andersson's Come Out, four girls leap and languish, ephemeral as youth in fast, unison movement driven by Steve Reich's unstoppable beat. Ballet and folk inform the limber feats in Mats Ek's Pas de danse, and a duet from former Forsythe dancer David Dawson's Morning Ground completes the program. August 3-7, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men , Becket beck·et  
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Title Annotation:Preview; Dance Festival
Author:Ortiz, Lori
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U1MA
Date:Aug 1, 2005
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