Winter begins with death in many forms.(Dance review)

From: The Informed Constituent (Albany, NY) | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Feliciano, Ray | Copyright information

Death took many forms last month, from the end of a music legend, a former U.S. President, a former dictator, and on December 31st the morbid milestone (tombstone) of the 3,000th U.S. death in Iraq, as if to close out the calendar year with precision divinely choreographed for poignancy. Winter often has been portrayed as the season of death, the end of one cycle, and the beginning of another. Death may inevitably come to us all, but it was how these men lived that makes their death...

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