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Article: DOMINIQUE DUMAIS BRINGS A RARE FEMINE TOUCH TO BALLET CHOREOGRAPHY.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 7, 2003
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Byline: R.M. CAMPBELL P-I dance critic
Women in ballet are omnipresent: It is inconceivable to think of the art form without them. As choreographers, they are practically non-existent.
The reason why is not a new topic for Dominique Dumais, a young French Canadian choreographer commissioned by Pacific Northwest Ballet to do a new work that will have its premiere Thursday at Mercer Arts Arena.
"Scripted in the Body," her first commission for a major American ballet company, is a 22-minute piece set for two couples and a narrator and explores the impermanence of daily life. The score combines music of Bach and Arvo Part. It's one of four works ...