Local dance ministries will perform choreography inspired by the Ailey repertory.
The Martha Graham Dance Company will perform choreography not only by Graham but also by Ted Shawn, her early mentor and the festival's founder, at the rustic Ted Shawn Theater.
At the Doris Duke Studio Theater, Buglisi-Foreman Dance will perform choreography by Jacqulyn Buglisi and Donlin Foreman, both former Martha Graham dancers.
"You just have to keep imagining that world rather than performing choreography," Mr. Barnett told Ms. Gawler as she transitioned to shadowland.
ACFDANCE The company, which features collaborative dance and visual arts work, will perform choreography by company director Adrienne Celeste Fadjo and her collaborators in light, set and costume design.
"Of course, instinct plays into the way we generate and perform choreography, but I've always been fascinated by what's going on with the physical thinking; not only when performing, but in actually creating movement.
The wide-ranging performances included troupes like the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pilobolus and Dance Theater of Harlem, as well as groups performing choreography by the Paul Taylor dancers Takehiro Ueyama, Orion Duckstein and Heather Berest.
In the film she performs choreography by Benjamin Millepied, the New York City Ballet principal with a side career as a choreographer, and Ms. Portman does indeed dance, about 10 sequences, with a lot of work for her upper body.
