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- American_Dance_Festival abstract "The American Dance Festival (ADF) is a six and four-week school for dance and a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, currently held at Duke University and the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina.The precursor to today’s American Dance Festival began in 1934 as the Bennington Festival, a summer program at Bennington College where modern dance pioneers Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman came together to teach dance technique and perform new works. For one year, in 1939, Bennington moved the program to Mills College in Oakland, California, but it was back in Vermont by 1940. It ceased to exist after the summer of 1942.In 1948, a program based on the Bennington model was established at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and called the New York University – Connecticut College School of Dance / American Dance Festival. In 1969, newly appointed director Charles Reinhart shortened the name to, simply, the American Dance Festival. After 30 years at the Connecticut College campus, the festival moved, in 1978, to the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.Modern dance choreographers and companies including José Limón, Pearl Lang, Bella Lewitzky, Sophie Maslow, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Ruth Currier, Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, Eiko & Koma, Seán Curran, Maguy Marin, Pilobolus and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker have all given performances there. Numerous dance works have premiered at the American Dance Festival, many of them commissioned by ADF. The largest theater in the Carolinas, the Durham Performing Arts Center, was built partly as a showcase for the festival.".
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- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Category:Culture_of_Durham,_North_Carolina.
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- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Weidman.
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- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Eiko_&_Koma.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Erick_Hawkins.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Hanya_Holm.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink José_Limón.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Maguy_Marin.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Martha_Graham.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Merce_Cunningham.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Mills_College.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Modern_dance.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink New_London,_Connecticut.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Oakland,_California.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Taylor_(choreographer).
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Pearl_Lang.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Pilobolus_(dance_company).
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Ruth_Currier.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Seán_Curran_(dancer).
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Sophie_Maslow.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Twyla_Tharp.
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLinkText "American Dance Festival Award".
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLinkText "American Dance Festival".
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bennington School of Dance".
- American_Dance_Festival wikiPageWikiLinkText "Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award".
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- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Culture_of_Durham,_North_Carolina.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Dance_education_in_the_United_States.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Dance_festivals_in_the_United_States.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Dance_in_North_Carolina.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Duke_University.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Festivals_in_North_Carolina.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Summer_festivals.
- American_Dance_Festival subject Category:Visitor_attractions_in_Durham,_North_Carolina.
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- American_Dance_Festival comment "The American Dance Festival (ADF) is a six and four-week school for dance and a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, currently held at Duke University and the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina.The precursor to today’s American Dance Festival began in 1934 as the Bennington Festival, a summer program at Bennington College where modern dance pioneers Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman came together to teach dance technique and perform new works. ".
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- American_Dance_Festival homepage www.americandancefestival.org.
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