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Article: Rosalie Jones: guiding light of Daystar. (Native American choreographer)
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- Dance Magazine
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- August 1, 1998
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Rosalie Jones, founder, director, and choreographer of Daystar: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America, is backstage awaiting a performance of Sacred Woman, Sacred Earth, her evening-long cycle of modem Native American dance-dramas. Tall and slender, her long silver hair pulled to one side revealing a beaded earring, Jones, or "Daystar," as she is known professionally, resembles one of the elegant Native American women painted by her contemporary, Navajo artist R. C. Gorman. In Sacred Woman, Sacred Earth, she takes the part of White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman, a character drawn from Lakota Sioux legend. Wearing a white fringed buckskin Plains dress and moccasins, ...
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