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Seven years ago the stage was set for the premiere of Birdbrain, choreographer Garry Stewart's first work for Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide. The new artistic director had opted for a contemporary version of Swan Lake, and when a video screen on stage displayed the word begin, nothing could have prepared the audience for the dance explosion that ensued as the worlds of ballet and techno music collided. Stewart's dancers deconstructed the story of Prince Siegfried and his dying swan Odette in T shirts wittily printed with words such as doom, lust, sieg and fried. But more amazing...
...classic of contemporary dance, catapulting the company onto the world stage, including the hallowed Th??tre de la Ville in Paris, where last year ADT became the first Australian troupe invited to perform. "Dance in Europe had been dominated by very conceptual work that was physically very minimalist," explains Stewart, 44, "and we came crashing through with Birdbrain, which is completely maximalist from a movement point of view." From Feb. 20, at Sadler's Wells in London, the extremely muscular choreographer has the chance to further shift perceptions of the body and how it should move through space when he presents...
...that's only an appetizer for what dance-goers in Spain, Slovenia and France can expect later this year, when ADT presents its latest and most maximalist work thus far. In the wake of a season at the Sydney Festival, Devolution pushes Stewart's high-voltage style to bursting point, pitting man against machine, muscle against metal. For this, the Adelaide-based choreographer has worked with Montreal "roboticist" Louis-Philippe Demers to engineer a fleet of moving machines that interact with ADT's 10 dancers on stage. By the end, performers don computer-programmed prosthetics in a dystopian dance with...
...opposition, as he does this time - received 78% of the vote. And on Feb. 27, an election date not exactly selected to encourage turnout in the Windy City, he is likely to do just as well. "With every election, Daley wins with higher margins and lower turnouts," says Jay Stewart, executive director of the Chicago-based Better Government Association. Even if his percentage slips a bit, one thing he won't change is his opposition to campaign debates. Daley doesn't engage in them because, plain and simple, he doesn't have to. The result is a generation of young...
MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR CLUTTER Organizational gurus may reclaim shelf space by getting clients to trash their high school honors or sentimental icons, but aren't their homes losing a bit of personality and history? There's a reason Rachael Ray is gaining on Martha Stewart, Freedman says. People are naturally a little clumsy and messy, and try as we might to cultivate monastery-like sanctuaries, clutter creeps back. Accept that, and you'll stress less...