The Breaking Ground dance lectures are "Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture" (Dec. 5) and "Check Your Body At the Door: Underground Club Dancing in New York City" (June 12).
'EAR TO THE GROUND DANCE COMMISSIONING SERIES' This weekend's wild card program, the showcase will feature new work by Asian-American artists.
  DUNNING 'EAR TO THE GROUND DANCE COMMISSIONING SERIES' This weekend's wild card program, the showcase will feature new work by Asian-American artists.
Doug Varone and Dancers usher in the Breaking Ground Dance Series at Wesleyan Theater at 8 p.m. Sept. 12; the program will be repeated the next evening.
The Breaking Ground Dance Series will begin by presenting Mark Dendy, who calls himself "a gender illusionist," and members of his Dance Theater Company, at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 and 22 at the Center for the Arts Theater.
Elsewhere on campus are four days of music from India at the annual Navaratri Festival (Sept . 19-22; the opening of the Breaking Ground Dance Series with performances by the Susan Marshall Company (Sept . 20-21, and a concert by Antares, the university's new ensemble-in-residence (Oct . 19.
So, too, the cohort of deep blue, jagged shapes floating like asteroids in deep blue space or a diagrammatic arrangement of purple and green dots on a brushy white ground or dances between zigzagging red and green lines: the realization of ephemeral mental states in zero-degree languages of painting.
She herself might have been hankering for a return to a more minimal approach: in Dancing in the Streets' 2006 production "Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette," she and four other choreographers were given five days to create works in and around Fort Jay on Governors Island, and she set her dancers the Sisyphean task of scaling the inner walls of the moat without ropes.
(Roslyn Sulcas) BREAKING GROUND: A DANCE CHARETTE (Tomorrow) Under the auspices of Dancing in the Streets, an organization that celebrates urban life by presenting performances in public spaces, five choreographers -- Ann Carlson, Eiko & Koma, Larry Keigwin, Tere O'Connor and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar -- will each present 5- to 10-minute site-specific works at the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn.
"BREAKING GROUND: A DANCE CHARRETTE" Breaking Ground is like a site-specific dance smackdown: a secret location is revealed to the public and to a small group of highly individualized choreographers, who each have five days to come up with a dance lasting about five minutes.
