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Article: Dance Place: 20 Years and Still Stepping; Carla Perlo's Magic Black Box
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- The Washington Post
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- September 15, 2000
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Carla Perlo walked into the former welding workshop, a concrete
shoe box on a commercial street in Northeast Washington. She looked
past the pickup truck parked in the middle of the floor, gazed
instead at the sunlight blanching the wide windows. She got chills.
Not from the bitter January air, Perlo says, but because she had
an inkling of what was to come, a vision of Washington as a thriving
dance town, with herself at its center. That narrow bunker would be
filled with noise and bodies and the sweet rush of really, really
hard work.
"It was a spiritual moment for me," Perlo says. "I felt like the
Lord was looking down saying, 'You've found the light. This is your
space.' "
Perlo doesn't ...