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Daphne D. Adler '99, the co-director of last month's "Perpetual Motion," the first dance show to be granted the Mainstage by HRDC in recent memory, says she does not criticize the individual HRDC board members, but the selection process itself...
...Lord of the Flies dynamic at work among kids. Even nice kids seem to spend a lot of time being cruel to their less socially prominent peers. Social science literature is filled with the gritty details--categorized under headings like "the spiral of rejection." Patti and Peter Adler, sociologists who do field research on cliques, found that a 17-year-old girl in one group they observed could raise her status by getting a boy to spend money on her and break up with another girl for her--and then dump him. Another clique member told a researcher that...
...though, it's all about the dancing, and it's a damn good thing Adler and Minyard beat those 20 long years of horrible odds to bring this sweeping, gorgeous spectacle to light. The hypnotizing waves of bodies in motion, and the pulsating madness of Pink Floyd's beats joined in ways crazy and serene, creating the single best student production I've ever seen on the Mainstage. The tremendous amount of dance talent on this campus came as a welcome and all-too-belated surprise to me; it's about time Harvard dancers received the venues, publicity and support...
...time in over 20 years, beautifully proving that they well deserve this long-awaited spotlight. Until this past weekend, campus dance performances seemed forever confined to lecture halls and small performance spaces hardly capable of illuminating the subtle beauty and powerful art of dance in live performance. Directors Daphne Adler '99 and Kiesha Minyard '99, both past co-directors of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company, obviously knew that the Mainstage is an ideal venue for showcasing Harvard dancers. They had an arduous task in front of them when they set out to convince HRDC that dance belonged on the much...
...though, it's all about the dancing, and it's a damn good thing Adler and Minyard beat those 20 long years of horrible odds to bring this sweeping, gorgeous spectacle to light. The hypnotizing waves of bodies in motion, and the pulsating madness of Pink Floyd's beats joined in ways crazy and serene, creating the single best student production I've ever seen on the Mainstage. The tremendous amount of dance talent on this campus came as a welcome and all-too-belated surprise to me; it's about time Harvard dancers received the venues, publicity and support...