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However, as FlyBy conducted a more thorough investigation of this pagan festival, HoCo’s reasoning began to unravel. Beltane involved Druids and otherworldly spirits back in the day. Today, Wiccans celebrate this ritualistic jamboree. What the eff? Message to Dunster HoCo: just because a holiday occurs in May, it is not necessarily an appropriate formal theme. As delightful as wearing maternity dresses to a Mother’s Day-inspired formal would be, something just doesn’t sit right with Beltane...
...choreographed by Jaime Blanc, one of the most highly regarded dancers in Mexico, was by no stretch of the imagination the supposed highlight of the evening’s performance. The dance was performed to the original music of Stravinsky and revolved around the same themes of pagan rituals and rebirth that inspired the original. Because of the unusual rhythms and dissonance of the piece, the tribal motions of the dancers were quite stunning. As a whole, the performers executed the half-hour long piece with the upmost precision and professionalism, never faltering for a second in their amount...
...hands and knees, scanning under park benches for glimpses of colored plastic, being shoved by some clambering kid who stole all the eggs we had clearly seen first—yes, those were the innocent days when we didn’t know or care about the essentially pagan origins of this holy day ritual...
...Sacre du Printemps”), two ballets with specially commissioned scores by Igor Stravinsky, are perhaps two of the most famous; the latter, with choreography by the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, caused a furor at its inception by virtue of its outrageous costumes, unusual choreography, bizarre story of pagan sacrifice, and Stravinsky’s musical innovations, all of which tested the patience of the audience to the extreme. “My hope at the symposium is to recapture something of the excitement of the premiere, by thinking about the context in which the Rite’s first...
...turned their guns on each other since they signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal three years ago. Still, north-south enmity runs deep, and the new fighting has pushed the region back to the edge. "We are on the brink of a new war," was the assessment of Pagan Amum, secretary-general of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). Tensions have been building for months. In a report on the region in March, the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned the situation "could quickly become national... It is uncertain whether the SPLM-NCP [National Congress Party, which dominates...