Pilobolus at the Warner Theater

Pilobolus Dance Theater (known simply as Pilobolus) is a nontraditional dance company to which each member of the ensemble contributes the multiple skills and talents of a dancer, acrobat, theater actor, and choreographer, altogether.

Pilobolus is famous for its visually arresting choreographic images—human formations in motion—entwining the bodies of the dancers in seemingly impossible ways. (If you are looking for exquisite pointe work or immaculate port de bras, look elsewhere.) The trademark gravity-defying choreography of Pilobolus requires exceptional athletic prowess from each performer.

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Saint Genet L'Africain

The Kennedy Center opened its Contemporary Dance series for the 2006/07 season with Saint Genet l’Africain—the dance-theater version of the celebrated play “The Maids” written in 1948 by Jean Genet (1910-1986). Genet, a prominent French novelist, playwright, and poet, based the play on a high profile murder case involving two sisters, the maids, who carefully plotted and executed a gruesome murder of their employers.

Saint Genet l’Africain is a modern interpretation of Genet’s drama with a peculiar twist – the story takes places not in Madam’s bedroom as in the original play, but in a prison. Moreover the maids, Claire and Solange, appear as male inmates inhabiting separate cells and watched over by a guard who is the Madam incarnate.

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Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza

A visually stunning dance entitled Waters of Forgetfulness (1998) was a highlight and a powerful culmination of the Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza performance at the George Mason University Center for the Arts on October 28. Founded by Tania Pérez-Salas in 1994, Compañia de Danza, a beautifully rehearsed 10-dancer ensemble, is considered Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary dance troupe.

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Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center

The Washington Ballet opened its 2006/07 season with an ambitious triple bill program featuring two masterpieces of American modern ballet repertoire – Jerome Robbins’ In the Night and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room. The company also presented the world premier of oui/non – a collaboration between Washington Ballet artistic director Septime Webre and chanteuse Karen Akers.

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