The Paris Opera House originally contained an area known as the Foyer de la Danse, "in which members of the corps de ballet could be approached during the interval and assignations made".
Like it or not you're going to find yourself in an ultraviolet air-conditioned room, paying 20p for a beer, chaining fags with a bloke from Australia while "Alors En Danse" thuds in the background.
Programming includes the Astaire and Rogers film musical "Roberta" (today at 1 and 9 p.m.) and, throughout the weekends, films on the Bolshoi Ballet and from the Cinematheque de la Danse in Paris, and new work from Canada, Australia, England, the United States, Spain and the Netherlands.
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will begin a new tour at the Biennale de la Danse, in Lyon, France, in September, with the international premiere of "Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray," the company's dance-theater work celebrating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.
This year Ms. Ney's choices include "Roberta" (1935) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and rare film -- including scenes of Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker and the Diaghilev dancer Serge Lifar -- culled from the archives of the Cinematheque de la Danse in Paris.
Computer programs for writing Benesh scores have been developed, and a centre for training notators and producing publications was established in the 1990s at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris.
Mr. Bensard, director of the Cinémathèque de la Danse in Paris, is one of Ms. Childs's many admirers on the European dance scene, where she (like Trisha Brown) has enjoyed a level of financial support and a consistent admiration, almost veneration, quite different from her standing in the United States.
Elsewhere in France, the Polish dance companies Ardente Sole and Magdalena Reiter will perform at the Biennale de Danse in Lyon, Sept. 12 to Oct. 3, online at www.biennale-de-lyon.org, and religious sculpture by Antoni Rzasa (1919-1980) will be displayed at the 900-year-old Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, Sept. 5 to Nov. 2, www.abbaye-fontevraud.com.
While Audy was out of town this summer, teaching at the Stage International de Danse, in Neuilly, Tom Whalen's feet had an epiphany.
Glorya Kaufman Presents underwrote the initial months of operation; presenting partners include Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Maison de la Danse in Lyon and Sadler's Wells Theater in London.
