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This summer, ADF is pleased to team up with lululemon for Durham Asana to Savasana, a special yoga event at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens on Saturday, June 22nd. The morning of yoga celebrates ADF's 80th anniversary season, lululemon's first birthday in Durham, and our vibrant community.

All members of the Durham community are invited—seasoned yogis, first-timers, and everyone in between! Please visit americandancefestival.org for more information about this free event and other community events throughout the season. We hope to see you there!

Wait! Breathe! Sing! profiles Katherine Kaufman Posner, who, in 1964, was the youngest-ever winner (she was twenty years old) of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is now a sought-after voice teacher. This documentary offers a glimpse into the power and beauty of opera, which is an art form—as Posner points out, the only complete art form—currently struggling to find an audience among younger generations. Katherine’s aria at the Metropolitan Opera auditions was Una voce poco fa from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and that gorgeous aria is the centerpiece of this documentary. One of Posner’s students is Janna Badalian, a professional jazz singer studying opera to train her voice. We see Posner coach her through the aria’s vocal requirements while offering lessons on dramatic techniques to engage the audience. We also watch as Posner and her husband, Jerry, listen to a long-forgotten reel-to-reel tape of her own rendition of the aria from 1964. Opera lives!

Terry Grunwald is a southern Jewish country girl raised on a chicken farm near Danville, Virginia. After attending college in the Big Apple, she worked as a welfare administrator and community organizer in areas such as the South Bronx and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Fortunate to come into adulthood during a period
of hope and possibility, she considers herself a true child of the ’60s, and her heart is still there. She worked in government and nonprofit agencies for over forty years, directing programs in community development, crime victim services, and community technology (though she describes herself as a “technoklutz”). Frederick Wiseman, Ross McElwee, and Alan Berliner are her favorite documentary filmmakers. In truth she is somewhat abashed that her first documentary does not address social justice issues, but she was entranced by Katherine Kaufman Posner as a subject and by the aria Una voce poco fa. She lives in Raleigh with her audiophile husband, Bernie, and standard poodle, Ivan.

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Susana Tambutti, dancer, choreographer, and a professor at Buenos Aires University in Argentina, has been a spirited member of ADF's international programming. She began as a participant in ADF International Choreographers Workshop in 1988. She has been commissioned by the festival , participated in ADF's international linkages, and most recently had her work, The Stab, staged and performed at ADF as part of its Argentine Festival. In today's 80 Faces, Ms. Tambutti describes the impact ADF has made on her career, both at home and abroad.

Eiko & Koma's long association with ADF began thirty years ago, with their first performance at Page Auditorium in 1983. That beginning marked the first of 18 ADF appearances to date, including 9 ADF commissions and the presentation of the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004. In today's video, Eiko & Koma recount one of many colorful stories in their relationship with ADF over the past three decades.

1983 marked ADF's Dance from France series, which featured performances from five modern dance companies. ADF Director Emeritus Charles L. Reinhart remembers, "In France, we saw all this extraordinary stuff. There was a bonanza of French choreographic talent, so we started bringing the companies to ADF."

Maguy Marin was one of the French choreographers invited to the festival that year. Twenty years later, she received the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement. In today's 80 Faces video, former chief dance critic of the New York Times Anna Kisselgoff discusses Ms. Marin's connection with ADF and the festival's role in introducing international choreographers to new audiences.

Larry Keigwin first attended ADF in 1992 as a scholarship student. "I had major awakenings that summer," he reminisces. "I just felt it was such a place to explore expressing yourself, and I definitely took advantage of that."

That summer introduced him to choreographer Mark Dendy, with whom he subsequently worked before forming his own company in 2003. In today's video, Mr. Keigwin recalls a particularly striking moment backstage at ADF in 1996 while performing with Dendy Dance.

Keigwin + Company, now celebrating its tenth year, has performed on the ADF stage four times and received four ADF commissions--most recently for Contact Sport, which gained rave reviews as part of ADF's 2012 season.

In today's 80 Faces, modern dancer and beloved ADF faculty member Betty Jones reminisces about her earliest memories of ADF, dancing with José Limón, Doris Humphrey, and Martha Graham. Revered for her work with the José Limón Company, Ms. Jones taught at ADF for over forty years. In 1993, she received the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Today, she lives and continues to teach in Hawaii.

Apple CEO Tim Cook explains how to hire people who will focus on collaboration and deliver the "magic" that happens when great minds come together. Cook spoke as part of his class reunion at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.(www.fuqua.duke.edu)

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APPLE CEO AND FUQUA ALUM TIM COOK TALKS LEADERSHIP AT DUKE

Tim Cook spoke to students and alums when he returned for his 25th reunion



"Explore everything. Push the corners of your mind. Just get on this kind of continual learning roller coaster and see what happens."

This was among the advice Apple CEO Tim Cook shared with students at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business on April 26th. Back on campus for his 25-year reunion, Cook took part in an hour-long dialogue with Fuqua Dean Bill Boulding and the students in a jam-packed Geneen Auditorium buzzing with excitement to hear from the leader of the world's most profitable company.

The Apple CEO has embarked on a career far different than he had envisioned after graduating from Fuqua's Evening Executive MBA program in 1988. "For me the journey was not predictable at all. You have to find your own north star and stay with your north star."

As 450 Daytime MBA students prepared to graduate, Cook advised the students to heed Abraham Lincoln's words of wisdom: "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

Cook shared the three keys to his leadership at Apple: people, strategy, and execution. "If you get those three right the world is a great place."

Students were able to get a unique glimpse into Cook's motivation, inspiration and leadership role models. Raised in the south and a witness to racial injustice, Cook described his admiration for Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior's bravery in risking their lives to fight for what they believed in. He has just three photos in his office: two of Kennedy and one of King.

Cook was asked when to follow strict principles of business theory and when to break the rules. His response stressed the importance of risks and learning from failure. "You should rarely follow the rules. What Fuqua teaches you so well is how to learn and how to collaborate. Write your own rules."

This message resonated with first-year MBA student Shelby Hall. "I know this follows Steve Jobs' belief that Apple creates products which consumers didn't ever know existed," she said. "It was interesting to hear Tim Cook's perspective on how we should balance writing our own rules while applying the foundations of business taught here at Fuqua."

Cook also spoke about some of his recollections from Fuqua. "The people made it an incredible experience. It was great for me to see how bright people approached solutions in different ways."

First-year MBA student Juan Danzilo says Cook's willingness to share his experiences shows a deep commitment to Fuqua. "Tim Cook's presence reflects Fuqua's sense of community. His humility and eloquence is admirable. It certainly was a unique opportunity for MBA students to hear from such an inspirational leader."

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about how intuition led him to Apple and how intuition develops over time. Cook spoke as part of his class reunion at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.(www.fuqua.duke.edu)

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APPLE CEO AND FUQUA ALUM TIM COOK TALKS LEADERSHIP AT DUKE

Tim Cook spoke to students and alums when he returned for his 25th reunion



"Explore everything. Push the corners of your mind. Just get on this kind of continual learning roller coaster and see what happens."

This was among the advice Apple CEO Tim Cook shared with students at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business on April 26th. Back on campus for his 25-year reunion, Cook took part in an hour-long dialogue with Fuqua Dean Bill Boulding and the students in a jam-packed Geneen Auditorium buzzing with excitement to hear from the leader of the world's most profitable company.

The Apple CEO has embarked on a career far different than he had envisioned after graduating from Fuqua's Evening Executive MBA program in 1988. "For me the journey was not predictable at all. You have to find your own north star and stay with your north star."

As 450 Daytime MBA students prepared to graduate, Cook advised the students to heed Abraham Lincoln's words of wisdom: "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

Cook shared the three keys to his leadership at Apple: people, strategy, and execution. "If you get those three right the world is a great place."

Students were able to get a unique glimpse into Cook's motivation, inspiration and leadership role models. Raised in the south and a witness to racial injustice, Cook described his admiration for Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior's bravery in risking their lives to fight for what they believed in. He has just three photos in his office: two of Kennedy and one of King.

Cook was asked when to follow strict principles of business theory and when to break the rules. His response stressed the importance of risks and learning from failure. "You should rarely follow the rules. What Fuqua teaches you so well is how to learn and how to collaborate. Write your own rules."

This message resonated with first-year MBA student Shelby Hall. "I know this follows Steve Jobs' belief that Apple creates products which consumers didn't ever know existed," she said. "It was interesting to hear Tim Cook's perspective on how we should balance writing our own rules while applying the foundations of business taught here at Fuqua."

Cook also spoke about some of his recollections from Fuqua. "The people made it an incredible experience. It was great for me to see how bright people approached solutions in different ways."

First-year MBA student Juan Danzilo says Cook's willingness to share his experiences shows a deep commitment to Fuqua. "Tim Cook's presence reflects Fuqua's sense of community. His humility and eloquence is admirable. It certainly was a unique opportunity for MBA students to hear from such an inspirational leader."

Apple CEO Tim Cook explains where his ethical compass comes from and what it means to be an ethical leader. Cook spoke as part of his class reunion at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.(www.fuqua.duke.edu)

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APPLE CEO AND FUQUA ALUM TIM COOK TALKS LEADERSHIP AT DUKE

Tim Cook spoke to students and alums when he returned for his 25th reunion



"Explore everything. Push the corners of your mind. Just get on this kind of continual learning roller coaster and see what happens."

This was among the advice Apple CEO Tim Cook shared with students at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business on April 26th. Back on campus for his 25-year reunion, Cook took part in an hour-long dialogue with Fuqua Dean Bill Boulding and the students in a jam-packed Geneen Auditorium buzzing with excitement to hear from the leader of the world's most profitable company.

The Apple CEO has embarked on a career far different than he had envisioned after graduating from Fuqua's Evening Executive MBA program in 1988. "For me the journey was not predictable at all. You have to find your own north star and stay with your north star."

As 450 Daytime MBA students prepared to graduate, Cook advised the students to heed Abraham Lincoln's words of wisdom: "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

Cook shared the three keys to his leadership at Apple: people, strategy, and execution. "If you get those three right the world is a great place."

Students were able to get a unique glimpse into Cook's motivation, inspiration and leadership role models. Raised in the south and a witness to racial injustice, Cook described his admiration for Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior's bravery in risking their lives to fight for what they believed in. He has just three photos in his office: two of Kennedy and one of King.

Cook was asked when to follow strict principles of business theory and when to break the rules. His response stressed the importance of risks and learning from failure. "You should rarely follow the rules. What Fuqua teaches you so well is how to learn and how to collaborate. Write your own rules."

This message resonated with first-year MBA student Shelby Hall. "I know this follows Steve Jobs' belief that Apple creates products which consumers didn't ever know existed," she said. "It was interesting to hear Tim Cook's perspective on how we should balance writing our own rules while applying the foundations of business taught here at Fuqua."

Cook also spoke about some of his recollections from Fuqua. "The people made it an incredible experience. It was great for me to see how bright people approached solutions in different ways."

First-year MBA student Juan Danzilo says Cook's willingness to share his experiences shows a deep commitment to Fuqua. "Tim Cook's presence reflects Fuqua's sense of community. His humility and eloquence is admirable. It certainly was a unique opportunity for MBA students to hear from such an inspirational leader."