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Jordan has also served as President and CEO of the National Urban League. He is currently a legal counsel with the firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld...
Similarly heterodox notions are percolating in other cities where ethnic minorities are fast becoming demographic majorities. In New York City, Eliot Feld choreographs his edgily urban dances for a colorful troupe drawn from the classrooms of Ballet Tech, a public school devoted to dance; the equally diverse Miami City Ballet recently premiered Mambo No. 2 A.M., a collaboration between Balanchine acolyte Edward Villella and '50s mambo king Pedro ("Cuban Pete") Aguilar...
Much younger than Feld or Villella, Webre is more directly in touch with the sensibilities of the Gen-X audiences he longs to attract, yet his newly galvanized dancers look as good in Tudor's piercingly nostalgic The Leaves Are Fading as in his own up-to-the-second pieces. This is no coincidence. "I cherish the ballet vocabulary," he says. "Its formalism is a vehicle to achieve the divine within us. But I'm also an American pop-culture person--I grew up watching Charlie's Angels reruns and going to rave nightclubs five nights a week...
Wheeldon's speedy rise to the top is partly due to a nearly complete lack of competition. The top American choreographers, Robbins and Eliot Feld excepted, have mainly preferred modern dance to ballet. Hungry for premieres, classical companies are increasingly turning to modern crossovers like Mark Morris and Twyla Tharp, whose highly personal reworkings of ballet technique are often refreshing but rarely idiomatic. While a few regional ballet masters are doing interesting work, none to date have won much more than local celebrity...
...caused him to remake his life. Eighteen months later, he left the Urban League; friends from those days believe he decided not to die for the cause. In January 1982 he accepted an offer from Robert Strauss, the silky, down-home Democratic kingmaker, to join Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a firm with one of the biggest practices in Washington...