Harlem, in Need of a Renaissance From: The Washington Post | Date: May 22, 2003| Author: Sarah Kaufman | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Uh-oh, one thought after glancing at the program for the Dance Theatre of Harlem on Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater. First on the bill was "Stabat Mater," a new work by Michael Smuin, inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks. Make way for melodrama.

Girding oneself for grief-on-demand proved unnecessary, however. "Stabat Mater" is no masterpiece, but the 20-minute work, set to Antonin Dvorak's "Stabat mater dolorosa," is a clean, classically based exercise that showed ...

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