Dance piece tells story of nurse injured in abortion clinic bombing

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Dance piece tells story of nurse injured in abortion clinic bombing
BY CALVIN WILSON
POST-DISPATCH
06/17/2009

In 1998, New Woman All Women, an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed. Emily Lyons, a nurse there, was severely wounded; she lost her left eye and had to undergo 20 operations.

"Eleven years ago, people told me, 'You should've died — you got what you deserved,'" Lyons said by phone from her home in Homewood, Ala.

This week, That Uppity Theatre Company will present a dance/theater piece inspired by Lyons' experience. "Becoming Emily," for which the company collaborated with dancers and choreographers, is based in part on "Life's Been a Blast," a book by Lyons and her husband, Jeff Lyons.

Recently, the production took on unexpected timeliness. In a speech on May 17 at the University of Notre Dame, President Barack Obama called on both sides of the abortion debate to seek common ground. On May 31, Dr. George Tiller, a prominent provider of late-term abortions, was shot and killed in Wichita, Kan ...

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1. I love things like this

Sometimes words fail, they just fail. Dance can use body art to express the inexpressible.