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From Boston to Bogota, in dance

By Joy Williams
June 4, 2006

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My arms and legs swing on stage to the rhythms of Afro-polyrhythmic music, but not any more at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. My stage these days is in Bogota, Colombia, in the 250-seat historic redbrick theater named after a pioneer of research into Colombian dance: Delia Zapata Olivella, a black woman, like myself. (Full article: 642 words)

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