Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forms, dance has experienced perhaps the greatest growth during the past decade. The bold experiments in modern dances during the '60s have come to fruition in the '70s; audiences regularly pack theaters to see such well-known troupes as Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, and Pilobilus. And the trend toward innovation has so spread that now companies in back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies...
...local arts planning and production agency is hoping to reverse that trend. Articulture, Inc. is presenting a seven-week festival entitled Dance-New England 79, featuring 17 companies ranging the gamut from classic to modern to avant garde. The performances begin Saturday night at the Berklee Performance Center with nationally acclaimed tap dancer Leon Collins and the spirited Danny Sloan Dance Company. Sloan features a repertory of jazz, ethnic, modern and ballet, while Collins, who teaches at the Harvard Dance Center, has toured nationally with the Jimmy Lunceford Band, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Saturday night's bill will also...
Future weeks of the festival will feature the Boston Concert Dance Company, the New England Dinosaur, and the Hartford Ballet. The concert dance company, which revives classic modern pieces ranging from Doris Humphrey's "Day on Earth" to the unique acrobatics of Pilobolus, will perform in the Boston University Theater the weekend of June 1 and 2. Dinosaur, Boston's oldest modern dance troupe, dances the weekend of May 25 and 26, also in the B.U. Theater. Founded in 1968 by choreographer Toby Armour, the group has toured nationally with numerous performances in New York. Armour was a member...
Next weekend the dance festival will perform the new and repertory works of some of the lesser-known regional choreographers in the first of three "Dance Variations" programs, to be held at the Hotel Bradford Ballroom. The Dance Gallery of Northampton, Mass., the first modern dance group to tour New Zealand, will present works of resident choreographers Peter Schmitz and Kathreen Sanderson, while the Chortet Dance Ensemble will premiere Andrea Morris' and Kathryn Bresee's "Strush." Cambridge local choreographer Becky Arnold will present a solo performance of her own works, and the Impulse Dance Company will display the eclectic style...
...Individual and the Corporation: A Case for Modern Ethics--Preston Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change, University Lutheran Church...