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...despite their training at the Boston Ballet School, inevitably lack the precision that comes with years of training. Perhaps a reflection of the collaborative efforts of multiple choreographers (Anna-Marie Holmes, Bruce Marks, Sydney Leonard and Daniel Pelzig) rather than of one person's vision, the many dances sometimes appear disjointed. Certain scenes in Act II could definitely profit from some alterations. The dance of the Russian soldiers in scene six, accompanied by possibly the most rousing segment of Tchaikovsky's score, fails to project the same enthusiasm present in the music. Equally anti-climactic is the Arabian Coffee dance...
George W. Hicks '00 is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House. His columns appear on alternate Fridays...
Leonard and his running mate, Catherine E. Tenney '01, both said their relatively recent arrival on the council--each was elected for the first time this semester--puts them in a position to reform the council to make it appear more legitimate in the eyes of the student body...
...scenes in the first act follow with an almost anticipated sense of fatality. Agresta, now as Helen's mother, manages to exploit the tension of the production; she must emote, yet her dialogue must appear to be a sardonic condemnation of maternal care. A genuine frustration at the play's emotional detachment resonates with the audience as the mother forces her daughter to eat a potato. However, the play becomes too rapidly melodramatic too early, as the sense that the characters are mocking themselves undermines the growing emotional tension in the play...
Upon entering the first-year dorm, Tenney spots some council members, going door to door to raise support for the council's proposed term-bill hike that will appear on the ballot. Tenney hustles up the stairs in front of the representatives, thinking that the reaction to the second of two council canvasses might not be warm...