Robert Johnson
By Robert Johnson
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Culture How Leonid Yakobson Danced Past Soviet Censorship
Choreographer Leonid Yakobson knew how to fight. When he was a teenager in Petrograd, during the freezing anarchy that followed the Russian Revolution, he acquired a set of iron “knuckles” so that he could beat the thugs who wanted to steal his younger brothers’ winter coats. When he was in his late 60s, Yakobson was…
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Culture Bill T. Jones’s Slow Dance Through History
‘You like them kosher, don’t you, Bill?” Edith Zane observed when she learned that her late son’s partner, the African-American dancer Bill T. Jones, had taken up with another Jew. Jones recalls this conversation drily, not bothered by the teasing. She was right about his predilections. “There’s no accident that I’ve had three major loves,…
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Culture Ze’eva Cohen Documents Her Gliding Career at Age 74
Ze’eva Cohen is tidying up her desk. The modern dancer who enjoyed a blaze of celebrity in the 1960s and ‘70s has reached the age where securing her place in history feels more urgent than satisfying a restless impulse to move. It’s too soon to say that she will never autograph another playbill, or smile…
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