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ISTHMUS PICK

Friday, April 8, Overture Center’s Promenade Hall, 7:30 pm

Kanopy Dance ushers in the spring with an uplifting program featuring New York City-based Stanley Love’s “The Love Number,” a premiere for Kanopy’s Anna Betz (“Paradiso”), Ede Thurrell’s “Living End I” and “Living End II,” a Japanese butoh-inspired work by Kiro Kopulos, and “Primavera” from co-artistic director Robert E. Cleary.

ALSO: Saturday (5 & 8 pm) and Sunday (2:30 pm), April 9-10.