The winter dance performance was an extraordinary, thematic work: the 20th Century in Dance. With narrated slideshows between each performance, the program took audiences from the Charleston to Hip Hop.
The ironically fun, care-free dances of The Depression were offset by poignant and moving pieces from the war years.
Abstract pieces contrasted with relatively traditional, smooth couples dancing.
Teenie boppers took us to the 1950s and the early Elvis years.
The audience buzzed at the sight of all-male dance numbers which brought us The Temptations (or is that Little Anthony and the Imperials?!).
Urban strife and the challenge of AIDS was captured with emotion.
Congratulations to the dancers, and to Julie Larsen for another triumph of choreography.
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