'Voices of Strength' allows African women to express themselves in movement
"I wanted to slip into the skin of a diva," said Nadia Beugre, a dancer-choreographer from the Cote d'Ivoire, in a question-and-answer session after her performance Thursday at the Kennedy Center. Dressed in jeans and speaking softly in French to an interpreter, she seemed not only far from divalike; she was also worlds away from the brutish, self-loathing being she had embodied in her provocative one-woman display,…