Article: AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL '99.(Review)

AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL '99 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE ENSEMBLE REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER JUNE 14-16, 1999 MARTHA CLARKE PAGE AUDITORIUM JUNE 17-19, 1999 DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

Two opening attractions I took in attest that this year's American Dance Festival is diverse in styles, though conservative in aesthetic. Both Chuck Davis's African American Dance Ensemble and a new theater-dance piece by Martha Clarke are highly charged--with broad emotion and sexual tension, respectively.

Davis has long been the Pied Piper of African dance, educating us about its customs, and enthralling audiences with his robust, good-natured presence. Who ...

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