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The generation lost to AIDS: the dance world mourned--no sector was spared the plague.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Dancers, in the pursuit of the joy of dance, undergo a hailstorm of hardships: bodily injuries, scrawny salaries, and a cruelly short career span. But no one could have foretold the medical nightmare that raged during the last two decades of the 20th century, when AIDS assaulted the dance community. For those too young to remember, hardly a day went by when studios and theaters weren't haunted by whispered stories of dancers succumbing to AIDS-related pneumonia, brain tumors, or a deadly lymphoma. Friends vanished so quickly that mourning was equated with numbness.

More than 25 million people--an inconceivable figure--have died from AIDS-related causes since 1981. Thousands of those...

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