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Maeve Kerr

Move for the Music

by Maeve Kerr on August 19, 2010

in Dance,Music,TRaC

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I sat looking at the platform and wondered what would be in store for me tonight.  The large, modern stage had been set up outside Lincoln Center in the Damrosch Park band shell for the International Body Music Festival.  As the evening grew steadily darker, and the rain fell more steadily, the show began.

The performance by Celina Kalluk and Lucie Idlout was like nothing I had ever heard before.  Cousins, the two women were of the Inuit tribe of Northern Canada.  They began to perform Inuit throat-singing.  They stood very close, facing each other.  [click to continue….]

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