The four-day conclave — involving panels, dance performances, juggling acts and other presentations dealing with science — was conceived by a team led by Brian Greene, the physicist and science popularizer, as a way to celebrate science.
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Thursday PANEL DISCUSSION: DANCE THEATER OF HARLEM, with Suzanne Farrell, Frederic Franklin and Lorraine Graves, moderated by Alastair Macaulay, the chief dance critic for The New York Times, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, at 65th Street, Lincoln Center.
Fifteen works, each under ten minutes long, have been selected by a panel of dance professionals.
(Winners are chosen by a 22-member panel of dance performers, producers and writers).
Dozens of items from his collection are on loan to the 92nd Street Y for a multidisciplinary program that includes an art exhibition, a writers' panel, a dance and an educational program for children.
Those choreographers, identified by Mr. Battle and selected by a panel of dance professionals, will receive stipends, work with Ailey dancers and be paired with "creative advisers" during seven-week residencies at the Joan Weill School of Dance.
Dance events include the Berlin-native Nejla Yatkin's "Dancing With the Berlin Wall," a site-specific project presented by the Goethe Institute in New York, and a series of panels at Dance New Amsterdam on Polish dance.
After she read out the results for the award she was presenting (Outstanding Judging Panel to Dancing With the Stars) she was just left to stand on stage in silence, waiting to see if anyone was there to collect it (they weren't).
