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Diamond rings for every toe...
...said. "Brown sugar" was a term of en dearment for chorus girls in Harlem in the '20s and '30s. Both sweet and sizzling, this loosely structured show is a song and dance ramble. During the edgy militant '60s, any black who danced was regarded as a toe-tapping Uncle Tom, and any black who sang was regarded as an evangelical sponge. What a treat it is to see blacks singing and dancing as if those skills were not blemishes on intellect or race but blessings of body and voice...
...created the Dance Theater of Harlem, the nation's first major black ballet company. Two hundred pupils arrived the first day; within a year enrollment had swelled to 800. Some of the kids had attended jazz and tap classes, but hardly any had ever seen a toe shoe. Today D.T.H. is an internationally known company with year-round employment for 27 dancers, a school with a student body of 1,300 and a home of its own in Harlem. "We broke all the rules," Mitchell says proudly, "because we had to. We had to make dancers in less time...
Starched Tutus. Dance's new girl, it seems, is a guy-Antony Bassae. Along with the nine other "ballerinos" of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Bassae performs in satin toe shoes and starched tutus. The Trock less than two years ago started in Manhattan Soho lofts and neighborhood shoebox theaters. This week it makes a leap into respectability with a four-night stand at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In addition to aiming choreographic broadsides at such sacred swans as George Balanchine ("Go for Barocco") and Martha Graham ("Phaedra/Monotonous"), the Trock delivers a few pointed comments on Tchaikovsky...
...partner's shoulder in the classic manner. Most of the Trock dancers take class daily, some, like Antony Bassae who has performed male roles with German opera ballets, have conventional training and experience. Taylor studied with both Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey before taking to his toes. He maintains that any well-trained dancer should be able to go up on point. Bassae agrees: "Ballet seems always made by men for women. I think that it's a challenge to change that. When I put on a pair of toe shoes, I found out what...