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...past six weeks the beaches of Venice, Calif., have become dimpled moonscapes of posteriors slowly ripening in the sun. There are other views. "If you got 'em, you should show 'em," crows Yolanda Davis, 20, a brown-breasted Tetonesque dancer who bathes in the buff at Venice. "There's nothing nicer than a totally tan body with no white stripes of civilization in between," philosophizes Peter Simon, 27, a freelance photographer on Martha's Vineyard. On a sunny Saturday the secluded dunes on Free Beach in Truro, Mass., reveal 500 bare beach bunnies of all ages...
Agnes de Mille, choreographer and dancer ("Oklahoma!", "Rodeo") will speak on, "The History of Dance in America," Thursday at 8 p.m. in Science Center B. Admission free...
...actions were a characteristically Peronist performance. Compromise, giving a little here to get a little there, a dramatic personal appearance-these typified the style of Juan Perón. Judging by her first few days, the old leader had passed his ability on to the former cabaret dancer who is now Latin America's first female head of state...
...African visual art issues from cultures permeated by the dance. (Movement, one might say, is to tribal art what print is to Western art.) The mask one admires in the museum once had a dancer's head inside it; the carved figure embodies meanings that are entirely based on gesture and posture. Art Historian Robert Thompson, in showing these works drawn from the superb African collection owned by Katherine White in Los Angeles, demonstrates the canons of African motion across the diversity of regional cultures: Dan and Dogon, Yoruba and Ogoni, Luba and Ashanti, Benin and Ejagham...
...intense minutes, the dancers flit and fit around and into each other like a set of oiled and animated cork screws inspired by the Kama Sutra. Al though the form is that of classical dance, the positions are not. They are an exploration of every inch of space on the stage and around the dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe...