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Article: Blurring the Lines.(cultural collaboration)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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THE NZAMBA LELA, an Aka Pygmy troupe, joins Alonzo King and his company for a world premiere
ALONZO KING'S HOUSE IN SAN Francisco is empty, except for a couple of chairs (he is remodeling) and a huge portrait of the late Paramahansa Yogananda, whose The Autobiography Of a Yogi spread Eastern knowledge to the West almost sixty years ago. It's a book that, King says, "changed my life." [] Choreographer King, his Modigliani-shaped face these days framed by a short beard beginning to show flecks of gray, is something of a philosopher himself. Whatever the specific intent of his pieces, they are buttressed by his belief that beyond appearances exists an order that is ...