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Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading) Terpsichore and the architects: 'I have a deep sense of my body's architecture … the skeleton', said choreographer Trisha Brown in her prelude to
CHRISTIANS DON'T DANCE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Simon Goldhill Dance had a particular significance in Ancient Greece. Its subsequent history in Western culture is grounded in the Christian resp...(Continue Reading)Of mamas, papas and "big mamas": authors weave a rich tapestry portraying strong African American kinships. - five books on family - book review
Families are the blueprints for how we build our lives. Mothers, fathers, grandparents and surrogates--the "architects" that shape us--hold our precious ......(Continue Reading)'Dance' starts out on track but gets tripped up by reality
Let me see if I've got this right: In the new movie "Shall We Dance?" Richard Gere plays a middle-aged married man with teenage children who lives ......(Continue Reading)In our Lord's time: Weddings lasted a week
If you like weddings, you'd have loved living in our Lord's time. Wedding feasts lasted for a week, sometimes longer. There was lots of wine and food the whole time, so it's easy to see why the wine...(Continue Reading)
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