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Advice for Leni Williams article

Hi - I've been through this draft, and I have a few more suggestions for ways to improve it.

Sections - most Wikipedia articles are broken up into sections. I'd suggest re-writing this so that you have a section on his career, where you basically note the significant things he did professionally, and a separate section on critical reception, where you refer to the things people have said about him.
Wikilinks - in a several places, you have very long and complicated descriptions of who some people are - for example 'anthropologist/ethnologue/ choreographer/dancer/author/scholar/activist/humanist Katherine Dunham'. We actually have an article about Katherine Dunham, so it is much easier just to insert a wikilink (as I've done here) - if the reader isn't sure who she is, they can click through and find out more. See also Gordon Parks, Carmen de Lavallade and others - basically, check to see whether we have an article, and if we do, just link to it rather than giving a long explanation of who they are.
WP:PEACOCK - get rid of phrases like 'World-wide-acclaimed-dance-instructor' - our aim should be strictly to provide information about the subject, not convince the reader that they are especially important or significant. Even if these descriptions are accurate, we try to avoid them.
Shouting - we don't write in all caps. Mass and Sweet in the Morning, as the titles of works of art, should be italicised per MOS:ITAL.

I hope this is helpful - drop me a note if you want to ask any questions, or would like me to look at the draft again. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 15:58, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Leni Wylliams https://catalog.nypl.org/search~S99?/XWYLLIAMS&searchscope=99&SORT=D/XWYLLIAMS&searchscope=99&SORT=D&SUBKEY=WYLLIAMS/1,30,30,B/browse#anchor_1 https://catalog.nypl.org/search~S67?/dWylliams,+Leni./dwylliams+leni/-3,-1,0,B/frameset&FF=dwylliams+leni&1,1, https://duarchives.coalliance.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=LENI++WYLLIAMS&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search https://www.facebook.com/leni.wylliams (born in Denver, January 15, 1961 – September 13, 1996) was an African-American modern dancer / master teacher / choreographer.

Qualities

Fellow-artistic-director Mary Pat Henry described Williams as having “one the most articulate bodies” in which one “could see every muscle and every move of the dance as it moved through him”. https://catalog.nypl.org/search~S99?/Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D/Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D&SUBKEY=wylliams/1,30,30,B/frameset&FF=Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D&3,3, Wylliams was lauded by Kansas City Star classical-music-editor Scott Cantrell as having danced with “the quality of radium” and moving “with power and fine-tuned precision, but also with a riveting ecstasy”. https://catalog.nypl.org/search~S99?/Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D/Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D&SUBKEY=wylliams/1,30,30,B/frameset&FF=Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D&3,3, After being witness to a solo danced by Wylliams, Katherine Dunham told Wyllaims “you are pure poetry”. https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/142439

The November 1983 performance by Wylliams as "Profit Jones" in Eleo Pomare’s Radiance of the Dark during Eleo Pomare Dance Company’s 25th anniversary season was reported in a New York Times’ review as being “show stopping”. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/17/arts/dance-celebration-for-eleo-pomare.html May 1985’s New York Times review of dances presented by Jose Limon Dance Company’s Clay Taliaferro cited “the impressive Leni Wylliams”.https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/06/arts/clay-taliaferro-and-jose-limon-company.html At the Fred Benjamin Dance Company's twentieth year celebration during September 1989, Wylliams danced the solo Illuminations, which Benjamin remarked "just about stopped the show!" https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/142439

Gordon Parks recalled that one of his most challenging projects was Martin and that the one who had kept him together was Wylliams. https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/142439

While creating choreography, Wylliams was seen being “almost trance-like” as though “he had a channel to The Devine” with material pouring out “fast and so furiously” generating “beautiful ballets in a short period of time”.https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/142439

As an instructor, Wyllliams was praised as having the incredible ability to inspire dancers to believe In themselves – to believe the impossible was possible. If they worked hard, they could achieve whatever in dance they wanted. Dancers adored Wylliams and trusted him so implicitly they would give him their all. https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/142439 If a class was stuck, Wylliams would sing Summertime and tell the students to start moving to it. At question-and-answer sessions following end-of-residencies performances during which Wylliams “wowed” student audiences, he was oftentimes begged to sing Summertime as he had so often done while he taught.https://catalog.nypl.org/search~S99?/Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D/Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D&SUBKEY=wylliams/1,30,30,B/frameset&FF=Xwylliams&searchscope=99&SORT=D&3,3,

Career

Wylliams began to pursue dance training at the Denver-based school of Cleo Parker Robinson during his early teens and subsequently advanced to performing in her company – Cleo Parker Dance Ensemble – until 1982 when at the invitation of Eleo Pomare, he moved to New York City to appear with Eleo Pomare Dance Company. Ultimately, Pomare set all of his solos on Wylliams - entrusting Wylliams to dance all of the roles he - Pomare - had created and performed for himself. https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/142439

Wylliams, too, danced in the companies of Jose Limon, Pina Bausch, Paul Sanasardo, Donald Byrd, Fred Benjamin, Rod Rodgers, as well as with Nederlands Dans Theater and Forced of Nature Dance Theatre Company. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/nyregion/leni-wylliams-35-dancer-and-teacher.html

Wylliams choreographed for ballet and modern dance companies around the world.https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=591311290878955&id=171306843022618 He taught in Russia, East Germany, Asia, and throughout the United States. Williams, too, was a visiting professor of dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music.https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/nyregion/leni-wylliams-35-dancer-and-teacher.html

In Boston during the late-1980s-into-very-early-1990s, Wylliams was interim-artistic-director of the Danny Sloan Dance Company; was founding artistic director of Wyll/Danse Theatre; collaborated with multi-Emmy-Award-winning-television-producer Barbara Barrow-Murray; appeared with Sarah Caldwell’s Opera Company of Boston [OCB]; was assistant choreographer to renown-Broadway-choreographer Patricia Birch for the OCB’s staging of Leonard Bernstein’s "Mass”, as well as for an OCB engagement at the Bolshoi in Moscow. [10]

Wylliams was assistant choreographer for Martin, a ballet tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. with music and libretto by Gordon Parks which premiered in Washington, D.C. during 1989 and was screened on national television on King's birthday in 1990. Wylliams, too, assisted Carmen de Lavallade in choreographing the Metropolitan Opera’s 1990 staging of Porgy and Bess .[10]

Wylliams met Mary Pat Henry while both were guest artists at a festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It was there that they both became aware of their remarkably-similar visions of dance and its history.[12] Soon after, Henry relocated to the University of Missouri / Kansas City to teach at its Conservatory of Music and then beckoned Wylliams to move there too.[13] During 1991, the two of them founded Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre [WHDT] and were its co-artistic-directors.

In 1992, Wylliams choreographed what was to become his signature solo - Sweet In The Morning - with vocals by Bobby McFerrin. [14]

Wylliams performed his Sweet In The Morning during “Masters Night” on Wednesday, July 3 at the 1996 National Black Arts Festival [NBAF] in Atlanta, GA. That signature solo danced by Wylliams was shown along with a select array of presentations by other NBAF performance artists in a televised documentary of the festival - Ark of the Spirit with Avery Brooks - produced by. Turner Broadcasting System[15]

Just over two months later, the life and career of Wylliams came to a gruesome end.

Murder

During the morning of Friday, September 13, 1996, Wylliams was found slain – bludgeoned, doused with a flammable, and set on fire – inside the bedroom of his Kansas City home. The Jackson County medical examiner’s office determined Wylliams had died of blunt trauma and smoke inhalation. [2] On September 17, 1996, suspect Timothy O. Evans - 26 years old - turned himself in to face charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Evans’ fingerprints had been found on Wylliams’ car, on the front door of his home, and on the 10-pound steel dumbbell used in the bludgeoning. Wylliams’ blood was found on shoes and clothing belonging to Evans. Prior to his encounter with Wylliams, Evans had told acquaintances he was going out to “jack” [rob] someone.[2] December 11, 1997, Evans was found guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree arson and armed criminal action. On January 30, 1998, he was given a life sentence in the beating death, a life sentence for armed criminal action, plus 15 years for first-degree arson.[2] Wylliams was survived by his mother Allice Ollie; his stepfather Esau Ollie; his sisters Kimberly M., Dana Y. and Rebecca D. Williams - all of Denver, CO; as well as by his father Harold Williams Jr. of Harrisburg, PA and his paternal-grandmother Mattie L. Faulkner of Coraopolis, PA. [7]

Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre

The company built by co-artistic-directors Leni Wyllaims and Mary Pat Henry changed the face of dance in the Midwest.[12] Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre - now known as Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company - continues to present with a range of more than 100 works that is as broad as any company in America.[12] It’s known for its beautiful, athletic style[9] and its presentation of powerful, uplifting works from a rich archive of American modern dance. The company’s repertory - ranging from the lyric to the avant garde - contains not only their own works, but dances by an array of internationally-acclaimed choreographers. [13]

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Might one presume Wikipedia is striving accuracy, clarity, quality, relevance, contextualization, cohesiveness, attention-to-detail, and/or enhancement in the postings if its articles? Apparently not in the matter of "Sduduzo Ka-mbili" !

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Then, NmWTfs85IXusaybq inexplicably has reintroduced back onto the article-page originally-posted text which remained rife with all manner of mis-spellings, mis-identifications, mis-translations, mis-perceptions, etc.

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Russell and Run Simmonsw / Russell Simons' Foundation / Washington Past / Peterson / United Nation's / Sarafina (The Movie) / Harlem Nutcracker / One of the 25 to Watch / Alvin Ailey American Dance School / Alvin Ailey Repertory Dance Ensemble / Hearst (Magazine company) / Super Stars of Dance / ANC-US / SUNY / My Sorrow

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South Africa / Cape Town / Whoopi Goldberg / New York City / Gordon Parks / European Union / WBAI-FM / The New York Times / The Washington Post / The Village Voice / Rolling Stone / Superstars of Dance / Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" / Africa Day / Sarafina! (film) / Taliep Petersen / David Kramer / Mbongeni Ngema / Donald Byrd (choreographer) / Russell Simmons / O, The Oprah Magazine / Hearst Magazines

At what high-profile Simmons/Hearst event was Ka-mbili featured? Which of Russell Simmons' foundations was being referenced? What is Russell and Run Simmons - a company, an organization, a thing? What's ANC? What's SUNY? What's S.A. - perhaps South America, South Asia, San Antonio? Did Ka-mbili himself perform "Izinhlungu Zami"?

All of such matters - amongst others - had been addressed in the text eviscerated by NmWTfs85IXusaybq.

It's perplexing ! What rational is there for Wikipedia to be blocking article enhancements and/or repeating postings of mis-information? Paynethymaya (talk) 21:31, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]