Winter, 2004 Judith
Jamison
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
I remember it was in 1979 that I saw Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater for the first time in
Tokyo, Japan. Among the swirl of the powerful
African-American performers' wonderful dancing,
my eyes were drawn to an extremely impressive
solo danced by a woman. As this tall and beautiful
dancer danced, striking her body with her hands,
I felt as if her energy illuminated the air.
How could I imagine at that moment that a quarter
century later, I would be having a conversation
with that very woman, Judith Jamison, and that
The Ailey would be about to take possession
of a new, custom-built, eight-floor building
in Manhattan?
◆Report
Yoko Shioya
Japan Society/ Director of Performing Arts
 Japan
Society was established in New York in 1907.
A private nonprofit organization, it is dedicated
to deepening intercultural understanding and
friendly relationships between the United States
and Japan. Its main activities are in the areas
of international relations, arts and culture,
and education. Last fall, Yoko Shioya became
the first Japanese director of the Society's
performing arts program. The future direction
of the Japan Society stage will be up to her.
◆Report
Amon
Miyamoto
Theatrical Director
 Stephen
Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical Pacific
Overtures has opened-again-on Broadway.
This revival, which had its American debut at
the 2002 summer Lincoln Center Festival, has
the distinguishing feature of a Japanese director,
Amon Miyamoto. When he granted us an interview
one and a half years ago, presenting on Broadway
was still a dream to Miyamoto himself. However,
that dream has now come true.
◆Report
A
Conversation with Pina Bausch
 Tanztheater
Wuppertal Pina Bausch first burst upon New York
City in 1984 in a legendary run at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music. Two decades later, the revered
German choreographer and her company of daring
individualists have returned for the ninth time
to present Fur die Kinder von gestern, heute
und morgen (For the Children of Yesterday, Today
and Tomorrow), a piece from 2001. On November
13, BAM celebrated 20 years of presenting Bausch's
seminal tanztheater with a rare press conference
with the reclusive choreographer.
◆Review
Dance
Molissa Fenley
Shen Wei Dance Arts
Dance Kumiko Kimoto/Koosil-ja
Hwang
Ballet Tech
Rosas/Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker
Companhia Portuguesa dw Bailado
Contemporaneo
Bangarra Dance Theatre
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(Left) Rosas/Anna Teresa
de Keersmaeker, (Right) Molissa Fenley
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◆Review
Theater
Caliban Remembers
The Remptation of St. Anthony
◆Review
Film
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation
The Film of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bush's Brain
◆Wind
from the East
History of Japanese Contemporary
Dance No.9
Tokyo Report
◆The
Chamber of Healing
A Door to the Spiritual World
◆The
Arts Cure News
◆New
York Dance Calendar
Caliban
Remembers
(above) + Bush's
Brain (down)
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