Word: dancers
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...looked for people who could express as much with their faces and actions as they do with their lines. Newcomer Rudy Youngblood, 25, a movie-star handsome Comanche and Cree Indian who plays the Apocalypto hero named Jaguar Paw, grew up in Texas and had been a grass dancer with the Native American Dance Theater before Gibson found him last year. "As a dancer, I know how to tell a story with my eyes and my body, which is the kind of acting this film requires most," says Youngblood. "But I also have ancestors who fought at Wounded Knee...
...Bhangra dance. The dance, punctuated with daring stunts such as the “Death Necklace,” drew cheers from the crowd. Performed by Aabed B. Meer ’06 and Armen I. Yerevanian ’08, the act consisted of a male dancer who wrapped his legs around another dancer’s neck and was whipped around the stage in a circle. The Tabla Ensemble, a group of four drummers, combined spoken word lyrics with pulsating rhythms. Sketches satirizing Indian culture bookended acts like the Raas Gujarati dance, which was performed with sticks. Tickets...
...decorate faces, flowers, and animals.The psychedelic style is as ingrained in our culture now as the Grateful Dead’s sound, which makes it all the more fascinating to see the conception of this aesthetic here.Changing colored lights illuminate several prints, which respond with movement—a dancer pulsates, a butterfly flaps its wings in the once lifeless paper.Suddenly, not only are you no longer in cold Boston, but you are not in 2006. Time has sped backwards and your mind is expanding: you are there at a Doors concert, tripping, in 1967 San Francisco...
...Cuba in 1959, who would have guessed that one of the items high on his agenda would be launching a national ballet company? Yet the idea fit right in with his revolutionary goal of bringing art to the masses. Castro asked Cuba's prima ballerina, Alicia Alonso, and her dancer husband Fernando how much they would need to make it happen. They said $100,000. Castro gave them $200,000. The investment has been paying off ever since...
...Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing if not realistic, which is to say it's about as grim as can be. It revolves around a 26-year-old dancer imprisoned along with her family after her father is accused of spying for South Korea's National Intelligence Service. She's raped by a prison warden, finds herself pregnant, falls in love with a guard, then realizes her situation is hopeless and attempts suicide?a punishable crime in North Korea...