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Cross-cultural festival in Yarostavl breaks the ballet barrier Cabbage soup, quaint streetcars, and magnificent, green-domed basilicas might be what most Americans would remember about Yaroslavl, an ancient city northeast of Moscow. But those of us who participated in the Fifth International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga in August 2002 were struck by the rich diversity of contemporary dance drawn from Russia and Eastern Europe. Americans from Minnesota, California, Tennessee, and New York performed, led workshops, and engaged in cross-cultural collaborations. Although the tram ride was not guaranteed to deliver us from the hotel to the theater any faster than walking, the three-ruble (ten-cent) ride over corroding pavement reminded us that we were in an entirely different time and space. [] But the dancing put us all on common ground. Modern dance, jazz dance, and Contact Improvisation abounded. Companies from Russia, the United States, the Czech Republic, and Poland gave performances, workshops, and talks. The Russian students--about 200-plunged into workshops led by Americans in jazz, hip-hop, and modern. A band of at least ten translators facilitated...
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