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SEPTEMBER
1999
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STUDIO GROWS IN BROOKLYN: Mark Morris turned down running the
Scottish Ballet earlier this year. Now he's building a permanent home
for his own company in Brooklyn. "About time" he says. Sydney
Morning Herald 9/28/99 (reprint from London Telegraph)
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PITCH FOR OAKLAND: San Francisco Chronicle dance critic Octavio Roca
says some of the most interesting, adventurous and entertaining dance in
the country is being made at the Oakland Ballet. Get on a plane, he
advises. San Francisco Chronicle 9/27/99
OFF POINTE: Canada's
National Ballet is teetering with unprecedented debt. The company blames
bad times for dance, critics claim bad management, but one critic says
its myopia - the National's out-of-touch with itself and its audience.
Globe and Mail 9/27/99
Atlanta Ballet orchestra
musicians go out on strike - say they will picket company's opening of
"Hunchback of Notre Dame" next week. Performance to use
recorded music. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9/24/99
ALSO:
Toronto
Symphony strike looms CBC 9/24/99
Canada's National Ballet rolled
up a $1.1 million deficit last season. Deficit now $3.8 million. CBC
9/22/99
Hartford Ballet is dead - long live
Hartford ballet - or at least, Dance Connecticut, which seems at first look
to have a promising future.New York Times 9/22/99
Soweto Dance Company: Gumboots does
for the dance of turn-of-the-century South African miners what Riverdance
did for the Irish jig or the Chippendales did for baby oil and bow ties,
says the London Sunday Times, 9/19/99.
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