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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">Celebrating the
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Morphing sizes, shapes, rhythms: </span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">it�s
time we saw diversity in dance!</span></b></p>
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<a href="http://www.naomigoldberghaas.com">Naomi Goldberg Haas</a>�
<i>Dances for a Variable Population</i> at the </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">27<sup>th</sup>
Annual Downtown Dance Festival, Chase Plaza, New York City (August
20)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">At the <i>27<sup>th</sup>
Annual Downtown Dance Festival</i>, they saved the best and most
original set of dancers for last -- on a bright, breezy, late summer
lunchtime in Chase Plaza�s generous outdoor space. The group, named
<i>Dances for a Variable</i> <i>Population</i> is a unique mix of
female performers of varying sizes, shapes, and ages -- including
both professional and non-professional dancers. Watching dancers on
stage -- that range in ages from 25 to 75, heights from short to
tall, figures from slender to buxom -- allows an audience to be
touched by a <i>real </i>beauty it rarely gets to see.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">DVP</span></i><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">�s
founder and choreographer, Naomi Goldberg Haas is a genius at
blending her dancers� very diverse styles of movement to create an
original choreography, the likes of which we have not seen before.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">The dancers of<i>
DVP,</i> with their different rhythms and energies, morph into
unexpected choreographic patterns, -- unlike the more predictable
ones of dancers with similar ages, body types, and movement styles.
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">Pieces performed by
<i>DVP</i> included the smart and sassy <i>Street</i>, where the
tender- and- tough of street life is shown in the push-and-pull
between the strong and the meek; the somber and beautiful <i>
Straight</i>, where two older dancers are paired with two younger
ones, showing the simultaneous reaching-out-pushing-away of younger
to older generations; the funky and spicy <i>Mambo</i>, with its
quirky sense of play; and <i>Disco,</i> that final
celebration-of-everyone -- where even those in the audience are
invited to get up on the stage and join in the dance.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">As Jonathan Hollander
(?), director of the Annual Downtown Dance Festival said, <i>DVP</i>
is a group that can help erase the sad belief of many that they are
�denied dance or beyond dance� because they have the �wrong� age or
body. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">In <i>DVP</i>, an
audience finds a synesthetic fusion of music, movement and
style--with an excitement that can only be compared to that created
by the diversity of New York City itself � with its teeming energy
coming exactly from its �variable population�.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">DVP
dancers:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode">
Geraldine Bartlett, Sandy Broyard, Alison Cook-Beatty, Joyce
Costanza, Bernice Feldman, Jackie Ferrara, Jill Frere, , Jamie
Graham, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Sandra Indig, Carolyn Jarvis, Lori Beth
Katz, Judy Kultermann, Emi Lesure, Kate Marks, Sari Nordman, Ingrid
Rothbart, M. Lindsay Smith, Maxine Steinhaus, Judith Chazen Walsh,
Betty Williams, Ji Yeon</span></p>
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