Crimes of Passion in dance: Bodies, blood and lust fuel thrilling works of art
It was August, and it was hot. The temperature was over 100 degrees before noon on Aug. 4, 1892, when Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were hacked to death in their Fall River, Mass., home. Grisly doesn't begin to describe the blood-splattered rooms, where the victims had suffered nearly two dozen blows to their heads. This was violent hyperbole, carried out in broad daylight. Was it a case of summer madness? U…