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...Crimson reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...male dancers evocatively lifted one of the female dancers, who seemed to transcend the boundary between life and death, perhaps returning to Earth after a period in Elysium. Jodi Leigh Allen, who will teach jazz classes next semester at the Harvard Dance Center, choreographed and costumed “B-Side,” another standout premiere. Dancers clad in black moved against a fiery red background to the artificial sounds of a synthesizer to produce a striking effect. The rigid movements of the men contrasted powerfully and sensually with the women’s grace. The ballet...
...experience over the weekend at the USSRA 5-Man Team Championships. The Crimson fielded two five-person teams in New Haven, Conn., where collegiate and national-level squads faced off in a three-day tournament. In the end, Harvard’s A team took fifth place, while the B team did not fare as well, suffering elimination after losing its first two matches of the tournament. Harvard managed to put forth a good showing at the tournament despite lacking one of its better players, freshman Richard Hill. Hill is currently representing Singapore at the South East Asia Games. Both...
Core classes are notorious for having long, unexciting lectures and mind-numbing sections. Given this context, Literature and Arts B-82, “Sayin’ Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility and Social Dialogue,” stands out for its guest lecturer this week. Geri Allen, an award-winning pianist and composer, is one of the most prominent female musicians in jazz today. Allen is finishing up a week-long residency at Harvard consisting of educational discussions, performances, and hands-on practice. The Music Department originally invited her to participate in the lecture with funding from the Blodgett...
...period of his life. One of his shows had just failed, his girlfriend had left him, and one of his best friends had just been diagnosed with AIDS. “It feels like something that he wrote in this very intense emotional period,” says Emily B. Hecht ’11, who takes on several roles in the show. “It feels like something very real and very simply done—something that you could really see coming out of one person’s mind.” Such a play might...