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After Heather McLennan took first (5:35) in the long jump and Ailey Penningroth placed second (13.69 meters) in the 35 point weight throw, the Crimson ripped off an impressive spree of first places...
...Black community at Mather is very small," said house resident Ailey Y. Penningroth '97. "And so it was necessary to call a special meeting. So we could get together and talk about...
Sophomore Ailey Penningroth won both the weight throw and the shotput events. And sophomore Karen Goetze ran an outstanding 5:01 in the mile...
Jones is not the only black choreographer to resist the aesthetic dominance of the late, great Alvin Ailey, whose masterworks were mostly composed to black music and whose themes were rooted in African-American history. The austere, abstract work of Ralph Lemon, 42, for example, owes a clear visual debt to such white Post-modern experimentalists as Meredith Monk and Trisha Brown. With their sense of order and symmetry, Lemon's dances even resemble the plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme...
Ulysses Dove, 47, another New Yorker, defiantly opts for freedom. He has earned the rare distinction of being the only dancer to have performed for both Ailey and Merce Cunningham, whose choreographic visions were diametrically opposite. Despite his admitted debt to Ailey, for whom he also composed dances, Dove has no interest in centering his own work on black motifs. In fact, sex rather than race dominates most of the 17 pieces, raw but energetic, that he has created since he stopped dancing in 1980. "If you want to be political, the place to do that is politics," he says...