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...Still Rising,” a text-in-movement piece, choreographer Braxton-Brooks allows her dancers to break the speech barrier by delivering poetry with words as well as dance. The piece is constructed from four poems by Maya Angelou on the theme of perseverance...
...Yogis are experimentalists. In the West, scientists research mainly external phenomena. Yogis focus on the inside. They know that the external world is maya (illusionary) and everything inside is sathya (truth). In maya everything goes, but if you know yourself nothing goes. The West tends to practice only what we call cultural asanas that focus on the external. We don't practice asanas just to become fit. Indian yogis have discovered 8.4 million such postures. It is essentially to train our bodies to find the most comfortable pose that we can sit in for hours. Beyond that there...
...fortunes, usually acquired from trading jute, but also from other Marwari-controlled businesses, such as real estate and movie-making. More than 75% of the stocks bought on Calcutta's exchange were thought to be financed by unofficial lenders. If bothersome regulators did require documentation, brokers could always use Maya Guha, the professional forger who had a stand on the sidewalk outside of the exchange. Guha was "an institution," one broker recalls fondly. "Everyone knew her and did business with her, too. She was part of the exchange family." In March, Guha was put in prison for forging bank accounts...
...sophisticated rhythmic approach. His Freedom Now Suite of 1960—a work banned by the Republic of South Africa—reflected his political concerns. In the 1970s Roach founded the M’BOOM Percussion Ensemble. Over the years, he has worked with actor Bill Cosby, poet Maya Angelou and playwright Sam Shepard, among others...
...Publicity Co-Chairs Joy L. Fuller '04 and Maya R. Payne '02 said they were excited by the exceptional turnout for all the events...