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24 November 2005
Volume 2, Issue 10
Free Voices
eZine of the People
Shout the
Truth....
Take Me Home
to New Orleans
By Brandon Batzloff
Editor, Free Voices
Rising from the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is a hope
that New Orleans can be greater than it once was. This is not a
greatness based on the money making power of corporate interests
and the very wealthy, but on the value of strong community development
and environmentally friendly building programs. Common Ground has
been leading the way in providing disaster relief in the New Orleans
area. They have launched the second phase of their programs, Rebuild
Green, to ensure that New Orleans is in fact a greater city than
before the storms. Continue
Reading
Getting Down
With OPP
By Luette
New Orleans, LA
This is a first hand report of my night spent in Orleans Parish
Prison. I am a resident of New Orleans, a woman of color, health
care provider, and anti-authoritarian organizer who has spent time
in more than a few jail cells, but never have I feared a cell more
than the one I shared with nine other women for a night and day.
I will tell this as a simple observation as I am still in shock
and can’t start to process or analyze what I saw. Continue
Reading
Community and Resistance
by Jordan Flaherty
New Orleans, LA
A couple months before New Orleans flooded, I remember walking through
my neighborhood on a beautiful weekend afternoon and hearing music.
I followed the sound a couple blocks, to where about thirty people,
all of them Black, followed a few musicians through the streets.
They were mourning the death of a loved one, New Orleans-style.
Despite their loss, they were dancing through the streets. I don’t
know what else to say, except that's how we do it in New Orleans,
and the image of those people mourning through celebration sticks
with me as I see New Orleans today, struggling with so much loss
and tragedy. Continue
Reading
Talking
About ....
Caveat Emptor
By Darryl Clark
Rochester, NY
Rochester’s ImageOut Festival is one of many opportunities
that members of at least three gay, lesbian and transgendered communities—Syracuse,
Rochester, Buffalo—can come together, and take in some cutting-edge
film entertainment that may, or as I will reveal, may not speak
to each of them and where they fit in this world. The selection
of films may provide strategies on how to handle their lives, they
may offer a closer look at another aspect of gay life not readily
accessible to denizens of western New York, or a good time at the
movies and another opportunity to cruise a few new faces—or
something else. Continue
Reading
Crying Art....
Part 1 of Caballero appeared in Issue 9.
Caballero
part 2 of 4
Darryl Clark
Rochester, NY
Fellow Ballet Caravan dancer Marie-Jeanne Pelus would join Nicky
in Lynes’ studio three years later. Balanchine would pose
them for a series of nudes that featured a variety of statuesque
poses and lifts shot in silhouette. One of these pictures is published
in the book Balanchine’s Ballerinas (Tracy, 1983, p. 81) and
it is stunning. Lynes asked Balanchine to join Nicky and Marie-Jeanne
for a portrait (Garafola and Foner, eds. p. 148). Nicky’s
intensive training at the School of American Ballet added muscle
to his frame and the passage of three years time have made him much
more comfortable in Lynes’ presence. He and Marie-Jeanne beam
for the camera; they are the epitome of beauty and youth. Continue
Reading
Caballero
part 3 of 4
Darryl Clark
Rochester, NY
Nicky’s first performance with Ballet Society was in 1948.
Maria Tallchief was cast in Divertimento’s lead female part;
Nicky joined her. Nicky also danced the role of Bacchus in The Triumph
of Bacchus and Ariadne. His partner was School of American Ballet-trained,
eighteen-year old Tanaquil LeClercq, who was quickly becoming one
of Ballet Society’s brightest young dancing stars. It was
around this time of intense professional activity that Nicky quietly
asserted his gayness. He had a relationship with fellow Ballet Society
dancer Richard Beard, his physical and artistic counterpart. Beard
was a blond heartthrob who possessed a great deal of natural talent.
He did not have Nicky’s discipline. His name would eventually
disappear from cast lists after the 1950 spring season. Continue
Reading
Caballero
part 4 of 4
Darryl Clark
Rochester, NY
When he approached his thirtieth birthday in November 1952, Nicky
was nowhere near the plateau many ballet dancers begin to experience
at this pivotal age. Nicky saw himself as a student; during performances,
he would watch from the flys, assimilating as much information as
he could about the repertoire (Andros). It was common sense. The
more information he had at his command, the easier it was to learn
a piece of repertoire that was set on another dancer. Such dedication,
impressive as it is, has its drawbacks. The major one is that his
life began to form itself around his career. As Balanchine’s
technique reshaped Nicky’s body, the company remade his life.
There would be little room for family or a lover who did not belong
to this community. Continue
Reading
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