DIRTY DANCERS: TuTu HOT!! MOTION PICTURES 4 Striptease Demi Moore 8 Showgirls Beth-berkley-actor">ElizaBeth Berkley 10 Showgirls Lisa Boyle 14 Flashdance JENNIFER BEALS 16 Flashdance MARINE JAHAN 18 Flashdance Monique GABRIELLE 20 Footloose LORI SINGER 22 West Side Story Rita Moreno 24 Golden Boy LOLA FALANA 26 CrissCross Goldie Hawn TOTALLY FLY
28 In Living Color ROSIE PEREZ
30 The Girlie Show CARRIE ANN INABA
34 Money Train Jennifer Lopez ELVIS' PELVISES
36 Love Me Tender DEBRA PAGET
38 G.I. Blues JULIET PROWSE
40 Viva Las Vegas Ann-Margret HEAVENLY FEET•URES
42 Silk Stockings CYD CHARISSE
44 An American in Paris Leslie Caron
46 Whose Life Is It Anyway? JANET EILBER
48 New York City Ballet HEATHER WATTS
50 The Royal Ballet SYLVIE GUILLEM TURNING POINTS
52 Deedee Shirley MacLaine
54 Emilia LESLIE BROWNE
56 Carolyn STARR DANIAS GIANT STEPS
58 First Lady of Dance RUTH ST. DENIS
60 Mother of Modern Movement MARTHA GRAHAM
62 Air for the G String DORIS HUMPHREY
64 Pretty Ballerina DAME MARGOT FONTEYN
66 The Dancing Dynamo MOLISSA FENLEY SINGULAR SENSATIONS
68 Cassie Sandahl Bergman
70 Sheila VICKI FREDERICK
72 Judy Janet Jones
74 Bebe MICHELLE JOHNSTON CHOREO•GRAPHIC
76 Oh! Calcutta! MARGO SAPPINGTON
78 Nether•lands Ballet SONJA van BEERS
80 The Devil in Miss Jones Georgina Spelvin
84 Shane's World Shane PRIVATE DANCERS
88 Bachelor Party TONI ALESSANDRINI
92 Dancer of the Year Fantasia
94 XsTaSy Entertainment Lorissa McComas
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EDITORIAL
THE SLEUTHSAYER
"Before man can do anything, he must draw breath, he must move," begins
The Book of the Dance by Agnes De Mille. "Movement is the source and condition
of life. The elements of dance are space, time, and hUmma-porn-star">Uman bodies." For this
soaring tribute to "Dirty Dancers," Sleuth made the space and the time.
A higher power made the bodies.
"Actually I don't feel very comfortable doing nude scenes," admits sinuous
Sandahl Bergman {p. 68}. "But All That Jazz was different because it was
within what I do as a dancer. Dancing is about the body. People thought that scene
was erotic because most dancers are covered up in costume."
Not any more...
"When a dance performance succeeds," a leading choreographer notes,
"energy flows back and forth between performers and audience, and exciting,
unpredictable things can happen." Like when the late Andy Warhol attended
a performance of the dance musical Cats on November 27, 1982: "We had front-row
seats," he wrote that night in his diary, and "I noticed the pussies
of the girls in the cat suits. You could see the slits up their fronts. They should
really wear pads. But oh, you could just see everything! Oh, those pussies {perhaps
the name Cats was a euphemism?}. You could see
the—cracks—and the lips—of the—the--the vulva. Okay? That's
how outlined it was."
New York City ballerina Toni Bentley, acclaimed author of A Dancer's Journal,
outlines why: "We are hairless. We have no leg hairs, no pubic hair... Any
sign of stubble must be closely watched out for and removed. We have a different
bodily structure than most hUmma-porn-star">Umans. Bras are a problem. None is small enough...we
usually resort to Teenform training bras, the ones most girls wear in the sixth
grade. In the end," Bentley concludes, "there is only the final product—no
cheating, no cover-ups. One is bare, naked, exposed. And how we loved it, that
exposure." Glad to be your partner...
Playing the Dance Card.
