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For all the versions of Beyoncé we’ve seen in her career — beauty queen, vixen, scorned women — stand-up comedian might be her most uninhibited. But as much as the Renaissance World Tour is limned with the beauty of aliveness and vitality, it is also preoccupied with mortality. She is deeply aware of the precarity of Black, queer and trans life. The shift between the ecstasy of the concert and the reality of the world was so disconcerting it was almost physically painful. But Beyoncé isn’t the undertaker; she is directing the second-line band at the funeral procession.

Persons: Beyoncé, we’ve, —, “, livin, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, O’Shae Sibley, vogueing, Barbara Ann Teer, Albert Einstein Organizations: National Black Theater Locations: York, Brooklyn, Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Fla

☆ Finding ‘Ghost Collaborators’ for an All-American Ballet
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The original “Filling Station” was created for Ballet Caravan, a short-lived touring company led by the impresario Lincoln Kirstein, as part of his long effort to establish ballet in the United States. It was a mix of ballet bravura, vaudeville gags and comic-strip aesthetics. (A 1954 television performance by dancers from New York City Ballet, which Kirstein founded with George Balanchine in 1948, can be found on YouTube.) Kirstein described the gas station setting as an invitingly familiar one, a crossroads where different kinds of “recognizable social types” could meet. “There was a lot of difference in the space, and I was working not to collapse us into the same hole,” Jones said.

Persons: Lincoln Kirstein, Kirstein, George Balanchine, Lutz, Kinoy, he’s, ”, “, ” Jones, Maxfield Haynes, Mina Nishimura Organizations: Ballet, New York City Ballet, YouTube, Lincoln, Museum of Modern Art Locations: United States, New, Kinoy’s, Kirstein

☆ Mourners Pay Tribute to O’Shae Sibley at the Scene of His Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Qween Jean, the founder of the advocacy group Black Trans Liberation, said: “Vogueing is not a crime. So today we will vogue in honor of O’Shae.”In the moments before his death, Mr. Sibley and four friends stopped at the Mobil station on Coney Island Avenue after a day at the beach. One of them pulled a knife and stabbed Mr. Sibley. Vogueing, an exuberant dance style that makes use of fashion models’ runway poses, emerged in the Black and Latino queer underground ballroom scene of the 1980s. Mr. Sibley, a Philadelphia native who moved to New York a few years ago with aspirations of pursuing a dance career, found a community in the city’s contemporary ballroom circuit.

Persons: Qween Jean, Sibley, Mr Organizations: Trans, Mobil, Brooklyn Locations: ”, Coney, Philadelphia, New York

CNN —Beyoncé has paid tribute to O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old professional dancer who was fatally stabbed at a Brooklyn gas station while vogueing to her music in what police say they are investigating as an anti-gay hate crime. Sibley was vogueing to a Beyoncé song at the gas station on Saturday night. A group of men approached Sibley as he danced with friends and started to shout gay slurs at the group, Sibley’s friend Otis Pena said on Facebook Live. The argument escalated and a man stabbed Sibley, said Pena, who witnessed the incident and put pressure on Sibley’s wound. Hate-fueled attacks are,” the senator, who is gay, tweeted.

Persons: CNN — Beyoncé, O’Shae Sibley, vogueing, SIBLEY, ”, Sibley, Otis Pena, Pena, Beyoncé, Kevin Mazur, Brad Hoylman, homophobes Organizations: CNN, Facebook, Maimonides Medical, Getty Images Police, New York, Lincoln Center, Performing Arts Locations: Brooklyn, Warsaw, Poland, New, New York

CNN —Police are searching for a 17-year-old they believe is responsible for the stabbing death of a Brooklyn man, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. The 28-year-old man was fatally stabbed at a Brooklyn gas station Saturday night in what police are investigating as a possible anti-gay hate crime, an NYPD spokesperson told CNN. Pena, who witnessed the incident, said the argument escalated and one man stabbed Sibley. Police said Sibley was stabbed in the torso. “The Ailey organization mourns the tragic death of O’Shae Sibley, following an attack outside of a Brooklyn gas station on Saturday night,” the dance studio of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation, Ailey Extension, said in a statement Monday.

Persons: O’Shae Sibley, Otis Pena, Pena, Sibley, Alvin Ailey, “ O’Shae, ” Brad Hoylman, ”, homophobes Organizations: CNN — Police, CNN, Facebook, NYPD, Police, Maimonides Medical, New York, Lincoln Center, Performing Arts, Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation Locations: Brooklyn, New, New York

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