The New York Times – Music:
Tall and commanding, she dazzled audiences as a principal dancer for the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem for nearly two decades.
Category: Dancing
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Julie Robinson Belafonte, Dancer, Actress and Activist, Dies at 95
The New York Times – Film:
With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was one half of a celebrated (and sometimes denounced) interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s
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‘Illinoise,’ a Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical, Is Moving to Broadway
The New York Times – Music:
The production will make its transfer unusually fast, with an opening set for April 24, just 29 days after it wraps up a sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory.
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Why Is There No Oscar for Best Choreography?
The New York Times – Film:
Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.
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In Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise,’ Dance On and Feel It
The New York Times – Music:
This narrative dance musical, set to Sufjan Stevens’s album, is a coming-of-age story and a meditation on death, love, community, politics and zombies.
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Reviving ‘The Wiz’ Through ‘the Blackest of Black Lenses’
The New York Times – Music:
The beloved 1975 musical returns to Broadway this spring, with nods to Black culture like second-line parades and Underground Railroad quilts.
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Jennifer Lopez and ‘This Is Me … Now’: Is She for Real?
The New York Times – Music:
“This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” a movie built on her latest album, is a showcase for the exhausting, never-ending, hazardous work of being Jennifer Lopez.