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White Bear, a dancer from the Apache reservation in Arizona, said that the grass dances were the first ones performed at powwows in the Plains regions. According to the program, young men danced in patterns that flattened the tall prairie grass so that others could gather and dance on it. Today, the grass dancers wear long fringe to emulate the grass and its movement...
...Soviet Union as a Utopia of artistic freedom. But White Nights sails giddily over political realities like the farm animals in a Chagall landscape. When Kolya Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is "welcomed back" by the KGB, he is put in the custody of Raymond Greenwood (Gregory Hines), a black tap dancer who defected from the U.S. after Viet Nam. Poor Raymond is a neurotic mess; glamorous Kolya has the nimble tread of melancholic star quality. Raymond agonizes about his family back home; Kolya never visits or mentions the family he must have left stranded. Raymond hates U.S. politics, but the disco beat...
...slowing down of such a usually-rhythmically fast-paced dance was not entirely successful here, as it seemed that the pirouettes sometimes seemed heavy-handed due to the unusually slow tempo of the dance. Here, dancing remarkably in the six of the program’s nine pieces, dancer Lauren E. Chin ’08 was notable for managing to consistently maintain a flowing grace, despite the slowed tempo of the Saudades “salsa...
Providing a refreshingly upbeat break in the program was “Over,” choreographed by Sonia K. Todorova ’07 and set to the Libertango by Astor Piazzolla. Dancers dressed in oddly pinstriped costumes cut off at the knee appeared like primitive cavewomen as they writhed on the floors. The electronica-like soundtrack formed a deliciously appropriate background for the spunky dance, which at one point even featured one dancer deeply arching her back to form a table top while another slid suggestively under her back’s curvature. Again...
...unexpected highlight came when some members of the CCDT put together an impromptu competition challenging audience members to mimic the moves of a CCDT dancer. The house exploded into hoots and cheers when freshman Durrell B. Robinson ’08 not only copied his dancer’s booty-shaking to perfection, but threw in some moves...