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Article: Kids in Good Company.(dance for children and teenagers)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Even adult professionals can find the demands of Mark Morris's and Twyla Tharp's choreography a handful. But there's a troupe of teenagers in Brooklyn who rise to the challenge, aided by the choreographers and their companies.
Last year, Kids' Company worked with Mark Morris Dance Group dancers John Heginbotham and Marjorie Folkman to learn sections of the Morris company's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Then this extraordinary teen troupe, directed by Diane Jacobowitz, performed the work at its January debut concert. The thirteen dancers even wore MMDG original costumes. They also learned and performed works by modern choreographer and dancer David ...