Dance articles from April 1997 through August 2000
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The Apparatus of Abstract Art
Yacov Sharir has the kind of passion and creativity you only wish could be bottled and sold.

Ballet Austin Prepares for the 1997-98 Season
As Ballet Austin's Artistic Director, one of Lambros Lambrou's goals is to keep his company accessible to the audience.

Butoh -- Dance of Darkness?
The performers exhibit a variety of symptoms. Ghostly white make-up covers their faces. Their heads are bald, or wild with untamed hair.

The Call of the Berimbau
What is Capoeira? This is a common question asked by both participants and spectators of this exotic import from Brazil.

The Creeps
To appreciate how much is going on in the dancer's head: cramps, a bad ankle, bad knees, trying to produce this amazing picture they've been trained for. And then they're supposed to make it all look easy.

Dancing in the Rain
Twenty years is a long time for a small arts organization to have lasted: proof that they are doing something right.

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The Kinetics of Kinesis: Toni Bravo's Portraits of Angels
Bravo successfully incorporates beauty and grace into a broader message of equality and opportunity, reaching to her audience as Artemicia reaches to hers, beckoning to them, inviting them to join her in her transcendence of pigeon-holed womanhood.

Personal Dances
Nerve Dance Company has just what it claims: a lot of nerve.

REALM danceproject
We don't dance to make pretty pictures. We're not skinny girls with flawless technique.

So Close
So Close is about "how our lives are fashioned not by our intentions, but by the actions of others."


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