1.   Gaffney had no qualms about presenting his dances at school assemblies and in impromptu cafeteria performances.

2.   In the afternoon the Atlanta-based Ballethnic Dance Company presented dances by a resident choreographer and by a guest who works in Africa and Europe.

3.   In the first category is Hernando Cortez, whose Cortez and Company will present dances performed last month in Manhattan at Dance Theater Workshop.

4.   Ms. Haigood and her company, the Zaccho Dance Theater, will present the dance at the festival beginning Tuesday through Saturday.

5.   One way she chooses to do this is by presenting narrative dances.

6.   She added that she hoped more experimental film dance would be presented in the future.

7.   Six other far-flung festivals will present dance throughout the city.

8.   The choreographers were outbid, however, by the Pellizzi Foundation, a precursor to Dia, which agreed but largely failed to present dance there.

9.   The dance is presented, and then it moves into the repertory.

10.   The troupe must still overcome the shortsightedness of some dance bookers, even major ones, about presenting dance by black companies.