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...Malika Hale's parents urged her toward an internship last summmer because "they felt like it would be good for college." But the 16-year-old ballet dancer from Santa Fe, N.M., was just plain bored. "I just wasn't excited about school or dance or anything anymore. I wanted to do something real...
...often found wearing baggy pants and Oxford shirts as a “blast to have around.” “He threw the best parties ever,” Corcillo said with a chuckle about their undergraduate years. “He was always the best dancer and the best DJ also.” Hennessy passed on his traits to his two children, especially his eight-year-old son, who Corcillo described as the “spitting image” of his father. “When you think backwards about his kids, that...
...DIED. Willi Ninja, 45, lithe, athletic club dancer who, as the star of the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning popularized vogue dancers, a then-obscure subculture of New York City drag ballrooms; of AIDS-related heart failure; in New York City. The charismatic, self-described "butch-queen," born William Leake, later taught the martial arts-inspired movements in Europe, worked as a runway model for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and taught fashionistas like Naomi Campbell how to strut with flair...
DIED. Willi Ninja, 45, lithe, athletic club dancer who, as the star of the 1990 dance-club documentary Paris Is Burning, popularized vogue dancers, a then obscure subculture of New York City drag ballrooms; of AIDS-related heart failure; in New York City. Born William Leake, the charismatic, self- described "butch queen" taught the martial-arts-inspired movements in Europe, worked as a runway model for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and taught fashionistas like Naomi Campbell how to strut with flair...
...Kokkinos is too passionate a filmmaker to deliver some earnest tract. And in bringing a dislocated dancer back to life, The Book of Revelation is as much about the transforming power of art. It's safe to say that with the film's Australian release this week, along with a screening in the Toronto Film Festival's outr? Visions section, few will be left unmoved by Revelation's sexual sparks and slow-burning philosophical musings-not least the filmmakers. "Everyone who became involved in the film was utterly changed by it," Kokkinos says...