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...Praise of Music, the Community Service Dept. of New England Conservatory will explore Black music and dance from its African origins to its present American flowering. Consuelo, formerly a dancer with Alvin Ailey, will make a special guest appearance along with percussionist Freddie Hubbard, and Lee Genesis. Genesis plays with Boston's own "Heat". Tickets are $3 and are available at the Jordan Hall Box Office. Funds raised will be used for the Community Service College's Scholarship Fund...
...that does not make it any easier for the students themselves. "The trouble is that dancers at Harvard lead a split life," Chin said. "From my experience, a professional type of dancer's life is not compatible with life as a Harvard student. Conceivably you could be preparing to be a dancer while at Harvard, because dance takes a lot more than dance training, but it's difficult...
Paxton's reticence as a performer arises naturally from his movement style, perfectly scaled for this sort of space. The wise old man of dance criticism, Edwin Denby, once noted that some dance gesture relates to the entire stage area while other gesture relates to the dancer's own body. Highly metred movement, like Laura Dean's, tends toward the first sort, Paxton's toward the second. His is not personal gesture in the sense of creating a specific presence of character, as does local dancer Deborah Chassler using similar improvisation techniques. We never find out who Paxton is, beyond...
...first impression is of a broad and strong-backed man executing very soft movements. Paxton begins walking the diagonal of the space with a forearm gesture that suggests a mime pulling open a door or a classical Indian dancer coiling her palm in a hand posture. The opening movements have an Eastern sort of stillness. There are five or so discrete sequences in each half, with a small break in between each, while Paxton wipes his brow or walks to a new starting position. Several phrases build to a similar climax: turns slipping into themselves and then into the floor...
...first issue contains 64 pages and some 40 bylined articles, each written in English with a brief Spanish precede, by Latino contributors. There are personality pieces on Cuban-born Dancer Fernando Bujones, numero uno at the American Ballet Theater, Rodeo Star Leo Camarillo, Spanish-born Fashion Designer Fernando Sanchez, Miami Newscaster Emilio Milian, who continues to speak out against Cuban terrorists despite a bomb attack that blew off both his legs, and Archbishop Roberto Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., the highest-ranking Latino prelate in the U.S. Regular features include fiction or poetry, a gallery of art or photography...