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Following this exploratory composition, the Dance Program presented Elizabeth Bergmann’s “Saudades.” In another dance that combined the seemingly ill-fitting, three dancers, two clad in red dresses not inappropriate for salsa-dancing, performed a kind of stilted sexy salsa step while—not a meringue mix—but a classical piano soundtrack stuttered in the background...
...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...
...Baghdad during the past few years, Marla was the life of the party. She would rent a house for a day, arrange food and drink and then fire off e-mails to friends and colleagues inviting us to a celebration that sometimes ended with a display of her enviable salsa-dancing skills. But behind her party girl attitude and surfer-girl looks was a fearsome determination and astonishing compassion, qualities that were instrumental in her securing millions of dollars in aid money from the U.S. government last year to help the victims of American bombing in Afghanistan and Iraq...
Cactus appears in an appetizer called tostada de nopales ($5.95). Pickled and served atop a tostada with lettuce, cheese, salsa verde, and chipotle sauce, it was both slimy and refreshing, like nothing I have ever tasted before. The jury’s still out on that...
...want to widen your dance repertoire beyond salsa and tango, there's always hula. Long before Captain James Cook arrived on the island of Kauai in 1778, Hawaiians were performing the hypnotic dance. Though its origins are steeped in legend, the hula is thought to have been brought to Hawaii by Polynesian immigrants more than 1,500 years ago. The stylized hand and foot gestures are meant to mirror natural phenomena like swaying palms and waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, pictured, are intended to symbolize the integration...