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Article: IDIOMS MERGE IN MODERNS.(Review)
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- Dance Magazine
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- September 1, 2000
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IDIOMS MERGE IN MODERNS
REBECCA KELLY BALLET
SYLVIA & DANNY KAYE PLAYHOUSE AT
HUNTER COLLEGE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
APRIL 28-29, 2000
Rebecca Kelly's choreography isn't "modern ballet," like Antony Tudor's. And it's not "crossover ballet," as this was understood in the 1970s, pairing ballet dancers as performers with Judson-style moderns as choreographers. Tree, Kelly comes out of modern dance, and her company, which since 1992 has been known as Rebecca Kelly Ballet, began as a modern dance group a dozen years before. But like a growing number of choreographers, she has chosen to work with ballet dancers and to create what the program calls "contemporary ... ...