CELEBRATING A KING PERFORMANCES TO PAY TRIBUTE WITH SONGS, DANCE, ESSAYS.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Celebrations of the life of civil-rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are planned in Palmdale and Lancaster. Lancaster's 16th annual King celebration will feature civil-rights writer, activist and filmmaker Constance Curry, local gospel music group LNE LNE Laboratoire National d’Essais (Paris, France) LNE Lincoln Northeast High School (Lincoln, Nebraska) LNE Late Net Entry LNE Local Notes Extractor (C.P. Bourg, Inc. and opera singer James Sterrett Bryant, as well as readings by third- through 12th-graders of local prize-winning essays on King's life and philosophy. Curry from 1960 to 1964 was the director of the Southern Student Human Relations human relations npl → relaciones fpl humanas Project of the U.S. National Student Association in Atlanta, Georgia. She produced a documentary film ``The Intolerable Burden'' based on her book ``Silver Rights.'' The Lancaster event is set for 4 p.m. Sunday at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Admission is free. In Palmdale, the Los Angeles-based Lula Washington Youth Dance Ensemble A group of dancers preforming under a common name: the dance equivalent of a band. Examples would be Riverdance and Shuvani. will perform a Martin Luther King Jr. Day program at 5 p.m. at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. Admission is free. Youth Dance Ensemble members are students of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre, which was founded in 1980 and has become one of the largest African-American dance companies in the Western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century . Twenty dancers aged 10 to 17 will be performing a program of gospel, African and modern dance at the Palmdale event. African-drum players will provide live music. The show will feature the world premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 of a dance set to one of King's speeches as well as a work by Lula Washington titled ``Free,'' a tribute to the civil-rights movement. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 3 -- color) Lula Washington, below, is founder and artistic director of The Lula Washington Dance Theatre, whose Youth Dance Ensemble, at left and at bottom, will perform a Martin Luther King Jr. Day program. |
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