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...Gianni DiMarco’s “Sensemaya,” the first of the dances to be performed on point. Opening with seven dancers crouched on the floor like animals, the technically and musically difficult piece proved to be a challenge. The black unitards against a red background emphasized the moments the dancers strayed from their unison, although as the piece progressed, they seemed to synchronize more successfully with one other. The latter half of the recital consisted entirely of popular scenes from the Nutcracker: “Snow,” “Spanish Hot Chocolate...
...parks where men and women, in the constricting clothes of the day, stroll, picnic or fish. Rousseau omits no unromantic detail: railway bridges, factories, chimneys, piers. In the stormy View of Malakoff (1908), telegraph poles and cables arch over houses, trees and passersby. Sometimes the sky is a background for hot-air balloons, biplanes, the Eiffel Tower, even zeppelins, as in Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child in Boy on the Rocks (1895-97) resembles a stuffed...
...Middle East, so a focus on South Asia will illuminate Islam in regions not immediately associated with the religion. But along with other professors and students on campus, we share some concerns about the possible implications of the gift. One concern is the prince’s background and a possible use of the academic bequest as a matter of Saudi foreign policy. Though Prince Alwaleed has major investments in the United States and is more pro-American than other members of the Saudi royal family, he is still the nephew of the late King Fahd and therefore a member...
...that reaction. “This year is about trying to foster a sense of interfaith community—to reach a larger group of people and have impact,” he explained. “People can get to know each other and socialize and get substantive background on each others’ religions. We want to make it less intimidating.” Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, who staffed the Sikh booth, said the event allowed students to ask questions they might not normally feel comfortable asking. “This is a good...
...things. Some dudes named “Motion Theory” directed this clip, and most likely they just watched that classic “Rowdy” Roddy Piper flick, “They Live.” Our hero wanders around the City of Angels, while the background keeps folding in on itself to reveal scary messages, a la MAD magazine’s infamous fold-in back pages. A pharmaceuticals display collapses, reading “Side Effects: Death...