Word: angelou
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...Mitfords themselves jokingly called it) produced several best-selling books, films, a television documentary and even a musical by and about that lively clan. At the center of it all were six beautiful, witty and controversial British sisters whose friendships ranged from the likes of Lytton Strachey to Maya Angelou, Joseph Goebbels to John Kennedy. They had, in the words of their most recent biographer, Mary S. Lovell, a "remarkable energy, joie de vivre and self-confidence" that made them seem almost like mythological creatures. Yet as Lovell notes in her introduction to The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford...
After the ballet segment, the show switches gears to a more modern vein with “Still Rising,” choreographed by Shelby Braxton-Brooks ’03. The background music to the dancing alternates between poetry from Maya Angelou, music from Sweet Honey in the Rock and silence. Thirteen girls interpret the poetry of Angelou (which they also deliver vocally) with their movements in an attempt, according to the program, to “connect the spoken word with the moving...
...Still Rising,” a text-in-movement piece, choreographer Braxton-Brooks allows her dancers to break the speech barrier by delivering poetry with words as well as dance. The piece is constructed from four poems by Maya Angelou on the theme of perseverance...
...rhythmic approach. His Freedom Now Suite of 1960—a work banned by the Republic of South Africa—reflected his political concerns. In the 1970s Roach founded the M’BOOM Percussion Ensemble. Over the years, he has worked with actor Bill Cosby, poet Maya Angelou and playwright Sam Shepard, among others...
Offerings ranged from a reading of Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" to a reenactment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech...