Dancing for Apollo."I dreamed of dancing as a child," says out dancer and choreographer cho·re·o·graph v. cho·re·o·graphed, cho·re·o·graph·ing, cho·re·o·graphs v.tr. 1. To create the choreography of: choreograph a ballet. 2. Richard Baniels. "But I thought a good Midwestern Jewish boy didn't go to dance class." Being a good boy hasn't been a priority for some time now, but Baniels, $4, still seems haunted by youth--in the person of Apollo, the eternally youthful god of creativity. For Telling Tales, his program running September 29 to October 2 at the Banspace Project in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Daniels boldly created a new modern dance to Stravinsk3fs"Apollo," first written for ballet giant George Balanchine Noun 1. George Balanchine - United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983) Balanchine . Daniels's "Apollo and the Muses Muses, in Greek religion and mythology, patron goddesses of the arts, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Originally only three, they were later considered as nine. " will be accompanied by a little-known piano version of the Stravinsky score performed by out composer-pianist Nurit Tilles. The evening also offers music by gay composer Gerald Busby. "Dance is how I express my experience of living through HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. ," says Daniels, who estimates that he's been positive since the early 1980s. "My Apollo is about creativity coming later in life--I think that's my story." |
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