|
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...
|
|

More articles from Dance Magazine
It's all good: valuing process over product.(STUDIO TALK)(Deborah Slat..., June 01, 2005
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|