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Article: Lesole Maine: an eloquent dancer with Liz Lerman and others seeks his own voice.(on the rise)
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- Dance Magazine
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- March 1, 2008
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The rehearsal room vibrated with tension. The theme--genocide in Germany, Bosnia, Rwanda--seemed to suck the air from the sun-flecked Dance Exchange studio in Takoma Park, Maryland. That first day, says Lesole Maine (pronounced Le-SO-lay Ma-EE-nay), a lanky, upbeat dancer from South Africa, "I wanted to take my bags and leave the place. I didn't want to do the work."
Small Dances About Big Ideas, Liz Lerman's riveting piece from 2005, deals with genocide's roots in the darkest parts of human nature. And for Maine, it was too much, too soon, and too close to home. Lerman asks her dancers to bring their own research and ideas from assigned readings and their raw ...
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