Word: acte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Minyard herself choreographed the last piece of the first act, a jazzy dance set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The orchestra finally managed to pull itself together for this piece, and pianist Jason Leekeenan '02 effortlessly displayed his unbelievable finger-work on the notoriously difficult piano solos. Minyard's sexy, spirited choreography combined jazz moves, classical ballet and wacky gender-bending, and the dancers were obviously all having a ball onstage...
...medley of West Side Story tunes composed the second number of the evening. "Pas de Quartre" was a hard act to follow, and the dancers of "West Side Story" seemed a little awkward and over-dramatic in their attempts to match the beautiful first number. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, accompanying the dancers throughout the first act of the program under the musical direction of Allen Feinstein, seemed under-rehearsed and ill-prepared for Bernstein's score, leaving the dancers to cover the distracting and annoying amounts of musical blunders in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the overdramatic choreography didn't do much...
...Minyard herself choreographed the last piece of the first act, a jazzy dance set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The orchestra finally managed to pull itself together for this piece, and pianist Jason Leekeenan '02 effortlessly displayed his unbelievable finger-work on the notoriously difficult piano solos. Minyard's sexy, spirited choreography combined jazz moves, classical ballet and wacky gender-bending, and the dancers were obviously all having a ball onstage...
...choppy, metaphorical phrases: "Like wild birds frightened. Like people possessed, tearing at their forms trying to set something free." The separations of the text and the style of Englander's sentences capture the fragmentation of Natan's world as he struggles to put the pieces back together and act as if life went on normally and uninterrupted...
...which fans out between two gigantic American flags, can only be described as minimalistically jingoistic--Kudos to Robert Schlesinger '00 and Alan Symonds. The choreography, especially the tap routine in ACT One, was weak, but then a slew of swing dancing stunts came along. By this time the ensemble players' performance had improved dramatically...