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...There are times when I'll wander around the building needing a space," says first- and second-grade teacher Patrick Cunningham...
Most video choreography isn't pushing the frontiers of dance. Watch a day of MTV, and you won't see much that compares favorably with the abstract poetics of Merce Cunningham or the rich ethnic synthesis of Garth Fagan. Choreographer Susan Stroman, who won a Tony for her work on the musical Contact, says the dancing she has seen in teen-pop videos lacks the depth of stage work. "In theater, a dance piece has a beginning, middle and end, like someone telling a story with dialogue," says Stroman. "In music videos, it's about the energy and the sound...
Math professors are not usually known for their literary prowess. So when Manil Suri, 41, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Maryland, applied for Pulitzer-prizewinning author Michael Cunningham's writing workshop in 1997, Cunningham had no particular reason for high hopes. But as soon as he began reading Suri's book, he was bowled over. "I knew from the first sentence that he was not only accepted into the class, but that he had a voice," says Cunningham. "Sentence for sentence, he is a beautiful and entirely original writer...
...guys just wanted to skateboard. Moreno, 27, the son of a plumber (his dad) and a secretary (his mom), met Stephen Carpenter, 29 (now Deftones' guitarist), in junior high school when the two were drawn together by their passion for skateboarding. Later, Moreno and Carpenter, along with drummer Abe Cunningham, 26, and bassist Chi Cheng, 29, formed Deftones and released its debut CD, Adrenaline, in 1995. Deejay Frank Delgado, 29, who performed on selected tracks on the debut, became a member after the second release...
...band's players hail from different ethnic backgrounds. Moreno and Delgado are Latino, Carpenter and Cunningham are white, and Chi Cheng is Chinese American. The racial mix is unusual in the mostly bleached-white world of hard rock but natural for a group from Sacramento. "It's really weird. We'll do interviews overseas, and they'll ask, 'What's it like being in a multiethnic band? Does that affect your music?'" says Cheng. "And we're like, 'Wow, man, come to our neighborhood. It's like that everywhere...