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Aeroplane Dance - A "story-telling dance" created by the Yanyuwa people that dramatizes the search for a crashed American bomber during World War II.
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The Human Hambone - Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when slaves were forbidden to use drums, and turned to the body itself as a percussive instrument.
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Living Memory - About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
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Machito - The Cuban band leader Frank "Machito" Grillo.
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Phoenix Dance - Dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer and thought he'd never dance again until choreographer Alonzo King challenged expectations of what it means to be "disabled."
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