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April 26, 2010
Two Dance Visions in a Creative Pas de Deux
By FELICIA R. LEE
A theater merging with a choreographer’s company? As the New York dance world puzzled over the unusual prospect of a union between the downtown presenter Dance Theater Workshop and Bill T. Jones’s company — one surprised former member of the workshop likened it to a merger of a museum and an artist — new details have emerged about the proposal.

The executive directors of both groups now say the plan calls for an umbrella organization that would include Mr. Jones’s troupe. The new brand — with a new name and a new mission — would link the 28-year-old company of Mr. Jones, who is kno"

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