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...informality of the audience did nothing to deter from the enjoyment of the montage of dance styles: tap, bharathanatyam, hip hop, bhangra, jazz, kathak, Bollywood and ballet, alone and in collaboration. Each group seemed to have its own enclave of particularly enthusiastic supporters in the audience, with UPenn’s PENNaach group greeted with the same warmth as Harvard’s Asian American Dance Troupe (AADT...
...PROBLEM WITH BEING FAMOUS for defying expectations is that eventually you can defy expectations only by not defying expectations. Which may explain why after nine albums and at least four career incarnations--presumptive one-hit wonder, exuberant hip-hop star, inscrutable avant-gardist and heartbroken folkie--Beck has decided it's time to give up the shape shifting. "In the past I spent a lot of time rejecting sounds that were similar to what I'd come up with before just to purposefully try to get away from anything familiar," says Beck, phoning from a Los Angeles recording studio...
...latest work, a self-titled album featuring a hip-hop potpourri of spoken word and rap, dismisses the feminine mystique that has pervaded all his previous efforts, including his first album, Amethyst Rock Star, and an earlier epic poem, “she.” Williams begins the new disc with what could only be described as a startling reclamation of his masculinity. “I ain’t got proper diction for the makings of a thug,” he tell us, not quite ironically, “though I grew up in the ghetto...
...what a brilliant artist he can be with the probing words and beat of “Black Stacey,” one of many melodic tracks on the album. And in “Telegram,” Williams puts forth a cunning observation: “Hip-hop is lying on the side of the road, half-dead to itself, blood scrawled over its mangled flesh, like jazz.” It’s all the more surprising, then, that Williams has chosen to align himself with such a dead genre...
...South Asian Dance Company (SADC), in particular, has been the perfect forum for my dance taste. My dance background is quite varied, from jazz to bhangra to hip hop to West African to ballet. Not only does SADC encourage fusion and thinking outside of the box, the company also dedicates itself to increasing social awareness by spotlighting a charity at shows and donating all proceeds to them...