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...American dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker (1906-1975) spent most of her career in France, captivating audiences with her performances and her extroverted personality. Her centenary falls next month, and a special tour (details at blackparisdivas.com) has been devised in celebration of a remarkable life...
...American dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker (1906-1975) spent most of her career in France, captivating audiences with her performances and her extroverted personality. Her centenary falls next month, [an error occurred while processing this directive] and a special tour (details at blackparisdivas.com) has been devised in celebration of a remarkable life. Baker, later nicknamed "the Black Venus," left the U.S. for France while still a teen, seeking the relative racial freedom of the Parisian stage. Her sensual style of dance quickly won over the city and made her a star. During the late 1920s, she was said...
...Footloose” in particular, and here, the choreography is brilliant. Jennings deserves high praise for her work—dance numbers that easily fit both Broadway and an ’80s night club. Her greatest achievement is to provide a general, synchronized choreography while allowing each dancer to maintain their individual character. In turn, the group of enthusiastic and skilled dancers do justice to Jenning’s lively, flamboyant, and overall excellent choreography.Appropriately the other driving force behind “Footloose,” the small but mighty orchestra under the direction of Howard created...
...said. “He could have gone home and become the tribal chairman. He could have done policy work.” Tomorrow Lussier will dance in Radcliffe Yard for the Harvard Powwow, a celebration of Native American tradition during ArtsFirst weekend. With a swirling shawl, the spinning dancer is meant to look like a butterfly. “I’m going to dance for Duane, and for our community, and for our pain and grievance, and for his memory.” Meat would help his friends with tasks ranging from proofreading theses to preparing ethnic...
...Duke University and to raise questions about how the Harvard community would have responded to a similar situation. The event addressed the recent criminal case in which members of the Duke lacrosse team were accused of raping a local African-American college student, who had been hired as a dancer for a party. Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) Director Susan B. Marine said Duke President Richard Broadhead should make public statements about the university’s moral standpoint on the incident, adding that she thinks Harvard’s leadership would not have done a better...