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Stephen King’s 1980 novel about Charlie McGee, a girl with pyrokinesis — the ability to start fires with her mind — has proved fertile to the cinematic imagination.

Legion, has within him multiple personalities of various sexes and widely variant temperaments, and each of those personalities possess a superpower: pyrokinesis, telekinesis, telepathy, etc.

Ailey offers a half-dozen, whose works span half a century, including this time around Ailey's masterpiece "Revelations," celebrating its 50th anniversary, along with works by George Faison, Camille A. Brown and Christopher Huggins, whose "Pyrokinesis" wowed Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago audiences a while back.

King dubs this inflammatory forte "pyrokinesis," a combination of the Greek words meaning fire and movement.

The drug has changed both parents' chromosomal structure; it is this mutation, not convincingly explained by King, that has produced Charlie's pyrokinesis.