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Hate, hope, and history: University of Mississippi strikes a racial chord with dance.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hate, hope, and history: University of Mississippi strikes a racial chord with dance.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)(Before Now and After Then)(dance)

Article Excerpt
FEW THINGS would have been more provocative to a Mississippi audience.

A graceful embrace, a single kiss, a pair of strong brown arms wrapped around a lean white body. And to the side, four fellow dancers watching, with faces twisted, tapping their hips to a "clink-clink-clink" in the music, as if readying a weapon.

There's a story of both hate and hope behind the movements of those six young dancers, and it's one that associate professor Jennifer Mizenko knew had to be told with an equal dose of boldness and sensitivity. A $7,500 grant from the National College Choreography Initiative allowed her to bring in someone with the experience and credibility to pull it off--Dwight Rhoden, co-director of the New York-based Complexions, a dance company the University Artist Series was already considering bringing to...

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