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That is the factual background of this vivid historical novel -- part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic. Like the author herself, a former ballet dancer and granddaughter of a white slave, the narrator is an American woman residing in Britain who returns home to learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with...
Standing over six feet tall, handsome, muscular, African-American, homosexual and HIV positive, dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones came to town this past week to teach us a few things. Despite a disarming smile and pleasantly patrician manner, there can be no questioning the intensity and sheer weight of Jones' words and movement...
...dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem, Saunders, who is Black, said he left after his first year, 1971-72, for several reasons, including academics...
...then, awkwardly and unexpectedly, with Rothenberg's gee-gees leading the field, figures started recolonizing the bare stage. Partly they did so in response to performance art, which had absorbed the body images that abstraction had driven out of painting. (Trained as a dancer, Rothenberg tried performance herself in the early '70s.) Partly it was just out of inarticulate need -- the need to reconnect with the world, through self-description that didn't exclude pathos. Auping is certainly right in seeing the horses as disguised self-portraits, or at any rate as "presences" that stood in for human presence...
...lead-off performance, the "Bhrat Natyam," or invocation dance, featured a single female dancer, Suchitra Natarajan of MIT, in traditional Indian garb. Natarajan synchronized her footsteps to the beat of a drum. The rattle of the ghungroo--bells worn on her ankles--echoed the tempo of the song...