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Article: American Dance Festival.
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- Dance Magazine
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- November 1, 2003
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Page Auditorium and Reynolds Industries Theatre Duke University Durham, N. C. June 5-July 19, 2003
The American Dance Festival's seventieth season turned out to be one of the best in its twenty-six years in Durham, and a fitting tribute to late Co-Director Stephanie Reinhart's legacy. This season focused primarily on foreign dancemakers, who presented U.S. premieres, world premieres, and an ADF debut.
French choreographer Maguy Marin proclaimed dance as a force to change the world when she accepted the Samuel H. Scripps/ADF Award for lifetime contributions to modern dance. "The stage is not a place of entertainment. It is the world," Marin said.
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