The American Dance Festival

The American Dance Festival has been a lodestar for the world of modern dance, bringing together dancers, choreographers, and other artists in a creative mix that has resulted in some of the greatest performances of our time. The American Dance Festival is thereby a history of modern dance itself: many of the greatest choreographers and dance companies working today been refined and crystallized in the stimulating environment of the festival.
Jack Anderson traces the development of the American Dance Festival?ADF?from its beginnings in New England ta half-century ago to its current summer seasons on the campus of Duke University in North Carolina. He displays the ADF for the multidimensional creature it is?a center for performance, a school for the creative of our choreographers and set designers, and a provider of community and professional services.
Anderson describes the productions, analyzes artistic policies, and examines the creative energy that has enabled ADF to unite the diverse facets of dance. In addition to providing the first full account of the festival's history, The American Dance Festival contains listings of staff, faculty, and season-by-season repertory, as well as cast lists of all festival premieres. The festival has been described as "a multi-purpose and many -splendored affair." Anderson shows why dancegoers enthusiastically agree with this assessment.  more