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Many members joined as inexperienced dancers who were simply eager to experience one form of Mexican culture. However, BFA’s Arts First performance combines the group’s cultural and artistic merit. “We’re usually considered a cultural organization, and this time we’re considered an art. We’re considered something that’s providing to the arts—the visual arts, the performing arts,” Ramirez says...
Patrick H. Quinn ’10 talks about dance using colloquial descriptions not typically associated with the art. “Dance looks so fucking beautiful when you see it,” he says. “Especially to people who have never danced before and are maybe watching for the first time. It looks like the most gorgeous, graceful thing, with legs floating up to ears. It looks phenomenal...
This inclusive view of dance characterizes Quinn’s attitude about the art to which he devotes much of his time as a choreographer and performer. Unlike most dancers, Quinn did not practice the form until he arrived at Harvard. An actor during high school, he went to the final hours of Common Casting his freshman year. There, he happened upon “American Grace,” the Harvard Ballet Company’s 2006 dance showcase that was auditioning through Casting. It was during this production that Quinn discovered the beauty of the art that would...
...idea of FACES was... not to stick disparate art forms together, one on top of the other, but to really teach and learn from each other and meld the art forms together into something greater than each individual part,” Sullivan wrote in an email...
After an application process in the fall, the freshmen involved in FACES spent much of the second semester participating in what Sullivan calls “community-building arts workshops,” creating work to be presented at the Arts First showcase. The end product will be a unique event, according to Sullivan: “It will be a multimedia living art exhibit of music, acrobatics, photography, film, painting, and live performance exploring the concept of identity...