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Article: Mix of club dance
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2001
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Mix of club dance, ballet sweetens `Sugar Flight'
By TOM STRINI
Journal Sentinel dance critic
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Ballet + club dance/hip-hop = Ben Munisteri.
That formula transformed Munisteri -- whose "Late-Night Sugar
Flight" will be danced by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students
this weekend -- from just another New York choreographer to the man
of the hour on the big city's dance scene. Every article in
Munisteri's voluminous clip file mentions the unlikely combination of
dance styles.
"That's the media hook that seems to have worked," Munisteri said
by phone from State College, Pa., amid a residency with the
Pennsylvania Dance Theater. "It began in January of 1998. Before ...