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DANCE The most versatile and inventive of America's black dancer- choreographe rs is Bill T. Jones, 42, the son of impoverished farm workers from upstate New York. In 1988 his longtime lover and collaborator, Arnie Zane, died of AIDS. Jones himself was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1985; today he works with the intensity of someone who knows his time is running out. He creates as many as five new pieces a year for his own New York City-based Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance company, as well as for such classical troupes as the Berlin Opera Ballet...
...three-hour multimedia performance work that requires a cast of 50. The first half is an interpretative summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the horrors of slavery, using both narrative and mime. (In the racially mixed company, Simon Legree is often played, ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease is God's punishment for homosexuality, conducted between Jones and a clergyman recruited from the local community...
...order and symmetry, Lemon's dances even resemble the plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme, Lemon demurred, but a chance meeting with Le Vaughn Robinson, a street-corner tap dancer, changed his mind. The result of their collaboration was Buck Dance, based on the syncopated clog dancing (the precursor of tap) that slaves performed to entertain their masters...
...complex evidence, they fell back on sheer sympathy for Imelda, who courted it with gusto. Dressed in black, clutching her rosaries, she could be seen at the defense table wiping back tears. Acquitted, Imelda threw a thank-you party for the jurors with roast pig and a belly dancer. She sang Feelings...
John Wayne Bobbitt, who earlier this year beat charges of abusing his famous knife-wielding wife, Lorena, was convicted late Tuesday on a second domestic battery charge against another woman. After a Las Vegas jury found Bobbitt guilty of brutalizing his ex-fiancee, former topless dancer Kristina Elliott, Municipal Court Judge Ron Parraguirre called him a "bully." The ex-Marine already served most of a 15-day sentence this month for a similar incident...