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This “Dance in America” special features highlights from Wolf Trap’s “Face of America” initiative, which commissions new works by the country’s top choreographers and musicians, with the ultimate goal of fostering a commitment to preserve national parks.
"Face of America," an initiative of the nonprofit Wolf Trap
foundation for the Performing Arts, celebrates the diversity of
America's cultural and natural landscapes by commissioning new
works by the country's top choreographers and musicians, with the
ultimate goal of fostering a commitment to preserve national parks.
This "Dance in America" special features highlights from Wolf
Trap's "Face of America" commissions: Project Bandaloop at Yosemite
National Park, featuring the work of choreographer Amelia Rudolph
and Native-American composer Robert Mirabal; the work of jazz
composer Steve Turre and choreographer Donald Byrd at Virgin
Islands National Park, featuring members of Byrd's troupe at the
site of an early sugar cane plantation; members of the U.S. Olympic
Synchronized Swim Team performing underwater in Coral Reef National
Monument; choreographer Doug Varone interpreting the songs of
country music singer Patti Loveless at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave
National Park; a celebration of flight by chorographer Elizabeth
Streb at Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk; and the
dancers and musicians of Halau O Kekuhi at Hawai'i Volcanoes
National Park.