More Horton – For HAT Co Dancers

Staycee Pearl’s HAT Co dancers should read this description of Lester Horton and his technique; and watch these two videos. The first shows a Horton warmup. The second is from a piece called “Beloved,” choreographed by Horton and filmed in 1962. It features Carmen de Lavallade and James Truitte. The dance is based on “a macabre tale of a religious fanatic who falsely suspects his wife of infidelity and murders her.” The influence for the dance came from a newspaper article Horton read about a man who bludgeoned his wife to death with a bible because he thought she had been unfaithful.