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Midnight Dancer

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Premier:  February 2004
Length
Dancers: 12 women, 5 men
Available for Re-staging:  Yes
Categories:  Large Ensemble




Choreographer: Donald McKayle
Music: Alan Terricciano, Nocturnos
Original Costume Design: Melanie Watnick
Original Lightning Design: Catherine Hegdale    

MIDNIGHT DANCER
By Langston Hughes

Wine-maiden
Of the jazzed-tuned night,
Lips
Sweet as purple dew,
Breasts
Like the pillows of all sweet dreams,
Who crushed
The grapes of joy
And dripped their juice
On you?

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