No Escape to the Dream
The curtain rises on Prince Siegfried, asleep and slumped in an armchair. We enter his dream: a mysterious woman dances in the shadows, only to be abruptly seized by a somber, bird-like figure.
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Washington, D.C.’s 100° June weather wasn’t the only thing generating heat in the city. Chamber Dance Project’s 11th annual D.C. summer season production, “Red Angels,” produced its own scorching intensity as one of this summer’s early triumphs.
Founded in 2000 in New York City by artistic director Diane Coburn Bruning and relocated to D.C. in 2014, Chamber Dance Project’s mission has been to bring together soloist-level ballet dancers from major professional companies during their lay-off periods with its own string quartet to produce outstanding dance and music programming.
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