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Article: Perlo & Friends, Celebrating Washington's Divas of Dance
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- The Washington Post
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- September 22, 2003
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At the start of the solo Carla Perlo performed Saturday night at
Dance Place, she told the audience, "Everyone left, and I was left
here . . . by myself." It takes a grand leap of the imagination to
picture Perlo alone, however. The reality is that in the more than
two decades since she founded Dance Place, she has surrounded herself
with the best dancers, choreographers and dance teachers in the
area, creating a near-constant buzz of activity at the black-box
theater and studio in Northeast Washington.
"Together by Ourselves," which opened Dance Place's 23rd season,
comprised two evenings of works by the area's leading female dancers
and choreographers. That the majority of her colleagues ...