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Article: American Dance Festival. (Page Auditorium and Reynolds Industries Theatre, Duke University, Durham, NC)
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- November 1, 1997
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JUNE 12-JULY 26, 1997 REVIEWED BY SUSAN BROILI
The American Dance Festival's sixty-third year and twentieth season in Durham was packed with programs that offered plenty of works worth watching. The best dances can liven up even the most bone-weary dancegoer. Programs by the African American Dance Ensemble and the International Choreographers project did that for me. Chuck Davis's ensemble of strong, passionate, and acrobatic dancers has never looked or sounded better. Dressed in white, dancers moved with meditative grace to the heartbeat of drums, harmonica, and violin in Ronald K. Brown's premiere, Free, both an affirmation of hope and a recognition of the forces ...