FIRST FLIGHT

The BAM 2003
Next Wave Festival ends with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s
"The Flight Project," a program that celebrates the
100th anniversary of the maiden flight of Ohio natives Wilbur
and Orville Wright.



Program A (Dec. 9, 11 and 13 at 7:30 pm) features three New York
Premieres: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s "Eurydice’s Flight,"
Bill T. Jones’ "and before" and Sir Warren Spears’
"On the Wings of Angels." Program B features the New
York premiere of Doug Varone’s "The Beating of Wings"
as well as Dwight Rhoden’s "Sky Garden" and Bebe Miller’s
"Aerodigm."



This modern dance company has amassed the world’s largest repertory
of works by black choreographers.



"The Flight Project" will be staged Dec. 9-13 at 7:30
pm at the BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place
in Fort Greene. Tickets are $20, $30 and $45. A BAMdialogue with
Kevin Ward, artistic director of the Dayton Contemporary Dance
Company, and choreographers Miller, Rhoden and Zollar will take
place Dec. 9 at 6 pm at the BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave.
at Ashland Place in Fort Greene. Tickets are $8.



For more information, call (718) 636-4100.