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P]k. m.SECTION 2 v [IBandshell Will Shimmer With Summer Dance ActivitiymThe Douglas Hamby Dance Company will perform on Saturday, at 8pm at the ProspectPark Bandshell.BY SHARON CUCINOTTAThe Prospect Band Shell will soon shimmer on summer nights when the %u201cCelebrateBrooklyn Festival%u201d begins its eighth summer season with eight evenings of dance.%u201cCelebrate Brooklyn,%u201d produced by BurlHash, is a project of The Fund for theBorough of Brooklyn, Inc. (co-sponsored byHoward Golden, NYC Dept, of Parks andRecreation and the NYC Dept, of CulturalAffairs). It%u2019s a free festival with programming of exceptional magnitude. Eitherdance, music or theatre will be offeredpractically every night of the week throughAugust 31st.The ambitious dance series, which is really a m ini-festival by itself, has grown intoan eclectic showcase for all kinds of danceincluding ballet, African, jazz, theatre andmodem dance.While the first week of the dance festivalfeatures more established artists and theircompanies, the second week is devoted to%u201cemerging artists%u201d of Brooklyn and elsewhere. Hash wants to keep developing thism ini-festival of dance with his main goalthe presentation of more and more new andinnovative talent from Brooklyn.In light of this, %u201cCelebrate Brooklyn%u201d hasinvited the Brooklyn Dance Consortium forits second appearance at the Festival.The Consortium%u2019s contribution will bemuch expanded this season. According toHash, this is the first original effort atbringing together independent Brooklynchoreographers, dancers and dance companies in the borough and presenting themin performance. Elise Bernhardt, the founding member and coordinator of the Consortium, saw a pressing need for such a groupof dance artists when she noticed that mostof the dance troupes appearing in Brooklynwere usually from Manhattan. Brooklynartists were desperately in need of a voice.Bernhardt%u2019s innovations and perseverancebrought the Consortium to the attention of%u201cCelebrate Brooklyn%u201d and Burl Hash.Three years ago, Bernhardt asked Hashto let the Consortium perform in the Prospect Park bandshell on Thursday nightsduring the %u201cCelebrate Brooklyn%u201d summerfestival. They produced their appearancesindependently without any sponsorship fromthe Festival. Hash agreed and was so interested in what he saw that he and %u201cCelebrate Brooklyn%u201d co-produced the Consortium%u2019s appearance at the Festival the following year. The Consortium presented amarathon concert in which each artist presented a ten-minute work. Hash becamefurther involved when he joined the programming panel of the Consortium. By thattime, up to 40 tapes poured in from aroundthe borough, attesting to the number of artists now living in Brooklyn.Finally, Hash hired Bernhardt to coordinate the two-week dance series for thisyear%u2019s %u201cCelebrate Brooklyn,%u201d in which theConsortium will have two presentations: another marathon concern and a showcasewhere four artists will receive approximately 30 minutes each on stage.Much of this forward-thinking and extensive programming was realized when Hashasked BAM to become involved in the danceportion of %u201cCelebrate Brooklyn.%u201dSince the time of BAM%u2019s subsequent support and participation, New York Telephonebecame the major sponsor of the danceseries. Hash is encouraged that the serieswill continue to develop under that sponsorship.BAM%u2019s vice-president Judith Daykin hasjoined Hash and Bernhardt in designing theprogramming for the dance series.Maverick Offers aBY AMINISHA WEUSI%u201cHanna Und Rainer,%u201d a one-act dramabased on the life of German film makerRainer Fassbinder, made its debut lastThursday night and will run through June29th at the Maverick Theatre located at 152Bergen Street in Boerum Hill.The play, written by Andrew Salgado anddirected by Roger Lawson, is an intense45-minute exploration of the love-hate relationship between director Fassbinder andhis long-time friend, actress HannaSchygulla.Betsy Thomson playing Hanna and VincentHank playing Rainer succeed in holding theaudience in rapt attention as flashbacksreveal aspects of the turbulent and passionate relationship.The stage is bare except for two chairsand four original posters of FassbinderHash%u2019s current ultimate goal for dance in%u201cCelebrate Brooklyn%u201d is to have two continuous weeks of appearances by Brooklyn artists.This year%u2019s series begins Thursday, June19th, with the American Ballroom Theatreand the Ballet Hispanieo. On June 20th,Jazzdance: The Danny Buraczeski Company, an acclaimed jazz choreographer andhis group, will appear, as will the San Francisco-based Jazz Tap Ensemble presentingthree dances and a jazz trio.Saturday, June 21, will bring Momix,founded by Pilobuius%u2019 Moses Pendleton, tothe bandshell, as well as the Douglas Hamby Dance Company and the Peridancefilm s. A photograph of Fassbinder on one ofthe posters exposes a strong physicalresemblance between Hank and Fassbinder.The audience is drawn into the on-stagestruggle between the two as Hannadesperately tries to find her existence apartfrom near-sadist Rainer. They violentlyclaw one another, attempting to freethem selves from a mutual dependency bymutual annihilation. Nevertheless, in apowerful, dramatic moment Hanna is inspired by him to become a refined andsophisticated actress.The play is an excerpt from a longerscreenplay Salgado submitted to the BerlinFilm Festival.The company, as its name suggests,operates differently from traditionaltheaters. Salgado works as stage managerand light technician; Dorris Cain, residentEnsemble.The Charles Moore Dance Theatre willappear on Sunday, June 22, along withLoremill Machado. The Machado Afro-Brazilian Dance Company will present TheCapoeiras, a dance of high kicks, sweepsand flips, that takes its form from a martialart developed by African slaves in Brazil.Thursday, June 28th begins the second,more experimental week of dance programming with the appearance of the BrooklynDance Consortium Marathon in which 12artists will perform.Bernhardt%u2019s favorite evening of programming is Friday, June 27th. Creach andKoester will appear, two men in duet,touted as %u201cparticularly commanding, finedancers,%u201d as will Stephen Petronio andDancers (Petronio is a member of theTrisha Brown Company), and Codanceco,presenting the work of French choreographer Jean Michel Agius whose work willalso be shown at the Liberty Centennial inthe French-American Dance Exchange, aFree Festival in Battery Park, also coordinated by Bernhardt.Bill T. Jones and Araie Zane Dance Company will appear on June 28th in an eveningof serious avant-gardism. This unbelievablyrich Festival of Dance will conclude withanother performance of the Brooklyn DanceConsortium where the works of Uris/Bahr,Martha Bowers, Elise Long and Ron Brownwill be showcased.Bernhardt said the %u201cCelebrate Brooklyn%u201ddance series can be as innovative as possible because %u201cwe don%u2019t have to worry aboutticket sales.%u201d All this freedom to experiment and excitement in discovery bring tomind the early days of Central Park%u2019s Delacorte Theater, where every concert was almost a personal discovery.All performances are free and begin at8pm at the Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street.voice coach, works the door; Hank (Rainer)is artistic director and between rehearsalsand performances, builds stage sets andother props.Maverick has been touring the city forfour years, taking theater to hospitals,senior citizen centers and other institutions.It will bring theater to the parks this summer.Catch %u201cHanna Und Rainer%u201d for an absorbing experience and get on the mailing listto keep informed about the BrownstoneTheatre Movement in Brooklyn. 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