Six Weeks of Modern Dance Across the Campus
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view article on Duke Today | Published June 13, 2018
Yon and Griggs are deadpan comics of rhythmized eccentric gesture — loops of simple steps with rock, paper, scissors on top. Part of the comedy lies in the contrast between his melancholy schlumpiness and her manic Broadway flair. With Bea, clearly the child of that combination, they became something like a family in a Wes Anderson film.
Brian Seibert, The New York Times, May 27, 2024
Congratulations to American Dance Festival on the eve of another spectacular season, the 91st and 47th in Durham! Tickets are on sale now for Ballet Hispánico, Paul Taylor and many other fan favorites returning—and all-new dance parties—throughout July.
The 12th consecutive year of collaboration between ADF and the Nasher Museum continues with YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present, on Sept. 12, 2024.
Join us for an immersive experience where the audience is led through the Great Hall of the Nasher Museum by Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs alongside their 12-year-old daughter, Bea Yon. The audience is integrated into the trio as momentary chorus members to their family stories, dances and drawing games. While the dances look “abstract” or non-narrative, this collection addresses how the trio captures experiences, creates memories, and attaches significance to when and where they dance together and who they meet along the way as part of their family story.
IMAGE: Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs. Photo by Zoe Litaker.
... [A] dozen dancers doing a seemingly simple catwalk strut that soon became complicated by nutty stage business involving props, costumes, lack of costumes and subtle alterations of gait that owed a thing or two to Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks.
The Seattle Times
This year’s rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” by Mark Haim will mark 10 years since it was last presented by ADF at the Nasher Museum, and the beginning of a second decade of collaboration between ADF and the Nasher. Four performances at the museum on June 13 and June 14. Tickets on sale now!
October 16, 2021
Two performances: 6 PM and 7:30 PM
Buy Tickets: $15
Philadelphia-based choreographer Raphael Xavier’s version of The Xcope is commissioned by American Dance Festival. The performance combines live music and electronic technology with hip hop aesthetics that include Breaking, poetry, spoken word and rap cadences with an improvisational and intuitive approach. The Xcope embodies the experiences of the practitioner in their respective fields to create narratives–capturing a moment in time shared by performers and audience. Performance includes eight North Carolina artists.
Masks will be required to attend this event.
The presentation of Xcope by Raphael Xavier is made possible by 315 Fund.
The Nasher Museum’s seventh annual collaboration with American Dance Festival took place during the festival’s 86th season in Summer 2019.
The Nasher and ADF co-presented “Eiko Otake The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable,” in three performances at the Rubenstein Arts Center. Japanese choreographer Eiko Otake and Durham artist Beverly McIver took part in a moderated talk at the Nasher Museum about their work together. The museum also hosted “ADF’s Hot Summer Pop Up: Choreography by Mark Dendy.”
ADF is thrilled to have developed a strong partnership with the Nasher Museum which helps us bridge experiences in dance and visual arts among our combined audiences and sometimes we are even able to merge the two art forms together beautifully in one performance experience, generating exciting conversations and igniting imaginations further.
Jodee Nimerichter, director of ADF
During summer 2018, the Nasher Museum and American Dance Festival co-presented Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M., an evocative, interdisciplinary work, as well as Places Please! by Nicole Wolcott and ADF alumni Larry Keigwin, a zany trip backstage in the final moments before the curtain goes up.
The Nasher Museum welcomes ADF School classes for the first time this summer. ADF students taking composition and repertory classes classes will meet regularly in the museum’s Great Hall, much to the delight of our visitors.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM, June 14 – July 21 Throughout the Chance & Collaborative Comp course, dancers will create choreographic structures to experiment within. “We will contin...
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For the past five years, the Nasher Museum and American Dance Festival have nurtured an important partnership to attract new audiences for dance and visual art. The Nasher Museum has been a performance venue during ADF’s season and also presented free talks and workshops by ADF choreographers. The museum and ADF also co-present a free film series, Movies by Movers, at the museum. This summer, June 18-July 20, visitors can watch ADF classes taking place in the museum’s Great Hall on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
The Great Hall became an exciting backdrop for This Land Is Your Land by Seattle choreographer and distinguished ADF faculty member Mark Haim in summer 2013. With a dynamic country music score, 14 performers brandished cell phones, Starbucks cups and plastic machine guns as they explored consumerism, environmental abuse and body image.
The rich partnership continued in the summer of 2014 with the co-presentation of Two Room Apartment by Israeli choreographers Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor. The Great Hall became a theatre-in-the-round for Sheinfeld and Laor’s duet, which reflected on their relationship as partners in life and as creators. For the second consecutive summer, the Nasher Museum was a performance venue for ADF, helping to connect audiences for dance and performance art.
In ReComposed (2015), co-commissioned by ADF and the Nasher Museum, choreographer Doug Varone created a dance inspired by American abstract artist Joan Mitchell’s pastel drawings. Mitchell used gestural, sometimes violent brushwork, and described her paintings as “an organism that turns in space.” Before the performances of ReComposed at DPAC, Varone and his dancers held a series of open company rehearsals at the Nasher Museum in an empty gallery. This was the third such partnership between the Nasher Museum and ADF.
In the summer of 2017, the Nasher Museum and ADF co-presented Yossi Berg and Oded Graf with Come Jump With Me in the museum’s Great Hall. Come Jump With Me is a daring, provocative and witty work that examines the relevancy and significance of creating art in the urgent political reality of Israel.