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Dance Magazine, June, 2000

American Ballet Theatre principal dancer and Fosse veteran Julio Bocca leads "Pure Motion," an evening of dance in New York's East Hampton High School to benefit the Community Research Initiative on AIDS and Dancers Responding to AIDS (a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS). Fosse dancer Desmond Richardson and dancers from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Dance Theatre of Harlem, MOMIX, American Ballroom Theater and Mark Dendy Dance and Theater will perform on the program, held June 17 ...

Twenty-eight dance companies, representing international dance traditions ranging from Korean sword dancing to Peruvian courtship dancing to Tahitian welcoming dances, will perform at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, June 9-25 at the Palace of Fine Arts ... Wedding bells rang in Westchester, New York, as Jean-Pierre Frolich, assistant ballet master of the New York City Ballet, married Isabelle Guerin, prima ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet. The wedding (his second, her first) was held February 24, and the couple will remain based in their respective cities for now ... The School of American Ballet holds its thirty-sixth annual workshop performances June 3-5 at the Lincoln Center's Juilliard Theater in New York ... The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries hosts the two-day seminar "Update in Dance Medicine" June 2-3 in New York; call (212) 598-6022 for more information ... Twelve companies from around the country savored first-place wins at the National Dance Alliance National Dance Championships, held at San Diego's Sea World in March. Competitors were judged on leaps, kicks, turns and choreography/execution--Esperanza High School of Anaheim, California, took home the Grand Champion Cup. For complete results, visit www.corporatenews.com/nsg.html ... The Hartford, Connecticut-based Sonia Plumb Dance Company has received a $15,000 grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts to stage a production of Grimm's Fairy Tales, a new work with original music and large-scale puppets. The production will be presented for free in Bushnell Park this summer ... The Joe Goode Performance Group will present the world premiere of Undertaking Harry--Part II June 1-4 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The piece is based on the life of gay civil rights leader Harry Hay ... Michigan's Allen B. Cutting Foundation has committed $500,000 to renovate Interlochen Center for the Arts's open-air performance space, The Bowl, plus $100,000 to endow ongoing maintenance. When renovation is complete, The Bowl will have terraced seating and fixed seating for 500 to 600 people. Interlochen will host dance performances by DanceGalaxy, the Interlochen Dance Ensemble and Trinity Irish Dance Company at its annual Summer Arts Festival from June to August. Interlochen has also announced plans to merge with The Pathfinder School in nearby Traverse City. Interlochen's board would assume responsibility for the programs and assets of Interlochen's summer arts camp and arts boarding school for grades nine to twelve, as well as Pathfinder's academic programs for kindergarten through eighth grade. The merger should be finalized this month ... Pennsylvania choreographer Laurie Tartar, a Dance Alloy faculty member, has received a $10,000 1999 Individual Artist Award in dance from the Pittsburgh Foundation ... Germany's SK Culture Foundation of the Commercial and Savings Bank Cologne, INTERARTES, and the Choreographic Center NRW are sponsoring a Video Dance Prize competition. Professionals and students alike are welcome to enter. Entries must be posted by December 1; for details, see www.sk-kultur.de/videotanz ... London's Royal Festival Hall has named Julia Carruthers as the new head of dance and performance on the South Bank. Carruthers, a former program co-coordinator at Dance Umbrella, succeeds Alistair Spalding, who was recently named director of programming at Sadler's Wells ...