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“I have not always had dance in my body,” DeQuina Moore began. “But I have always known rhythm.”Moore, a virtuosic Houston-born actress, was in a mirror-lined studio at Stages, rehearsing a scene in a new spoken-word and dance production about the life of Lauren Anderson, the former Houston Ballet star who was one of America’s first Black principal dancers. Plumshuga is billed as a show told in Anderson’s own words. It peels back the sugarcoated story many Texans know, exposing her challenges with alcohol and drug addiction.Moore was also perfecting the tone and pacing of a monologue in which Anderson’s character wrestles with an uncomfortable memory about the hurt she felt as a kid when her parents split up. “There were many weekends caught between…

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