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Zane Booker's Portraits

by KRISTEN ALLEN, STAFF REPORTER | September 24, 2009

Emma Kraus, Nicole Sabella, Maya Johnson and Justin Bryant briefly pause to pose.

Zane Booker, a well known Philadelphia dancer and director, presented a small group production of his new work Portraits. Five young dancers performed the work-in-progress, which they created with Booker as a Swarthmore Project this summer.

Each dancer chose a historical figure, doing research and creative writing about the person before turning their thoughts into movements. Among their inspirations were James Baldwin, Gloria Steinem, and Josephine Baker; each character struggled with discrimination—sexism, homophobia, racism.

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Late Valentine's Day at the Symposium

Today, jackdaws and magpies, the sages have gathered, to talk about love. To talk about love cut through with time. Crippled with the burden of the clocks of our ancestors, we stagger around in the daytimes, and maybe post some chocolates to the dorm next door by the tilting-upward of the next due dawn. In short: we know that we need it. And we don't know how to get it. Or, more specifically—when we don't know just when the getting's good.

#1: 9/29/2009 at 4:50 a.m.

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These pictures are lovely!


— Lauren Stokes | Staff

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