and for all our west coast readers, may we suggest:

NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2008

The fifth annual NOW Festival features nine projects by artists working throughout the Los Angeles region in dance, theater, music and hybrid performance works. For three weeks beginning in July, these artists take the REDCAT stage to bend traditions, investigate new visions of work and celebrate risk and invention.

http://redcat.org/season/0708/dan/now.php

Program 1: July 17–19

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project

Cloud Eye Control

Theatre Movement Bazaar

Program 2: July 24–26

Ledges and Bones Dance Project

Poor Dog Group

Lionel Popkin

Program 3: July 31–August 2

Rosanna Gamson / World Wide

Anne LeBaron/Douglas Kearney

Kristina Wong