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Being a full-time student at Harvard is enough to make anyone’s head spin. But try being a biomedical engineering concentrator and contemporary dancer as well as a ballerina. This is the case for Lauren E. Chin ’08-’09. Luckily, her poise and grace managed to carry her pirouetting to the OFA’s Suzanne Farrell Dance Award. The prize—whose namesake was once the prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet—is given to the Harvard undergraduate who has demonstrated exemplary artistry...
...wasn’t scared of her. She was a ballerina...
...SAB’s 75th anniversary gala performance with the New York City Ballet (NYCB) several weeks ago, an experience she calls the “highlight” of her year. She recently sat down with The Harvard Crimson to tell us more about her career as a ballerina. The Harvard Crimson (THC): Tell me about your transition from Japan to New York, before Boston.Misa Kuranaga (MK): It was a little bit of a shock. It was definitely different. My training in Japan was very classical. Of course I knew [Balanchine’s, a famous choreographer?...
...remarks on the value of participation in communitarian artistic and humanistic pedagogy. Each participant stood with one arm raised as though he were blocking the moonlight, brought his hand to the heart, and opened his arms to the heavens. In the ballet, this passage invokes the birth of the ballerina; here, the cello accompaniment of Yo-Yo Ma and flickering candles invoked the birth of an almost holy union of artistic commitment among individuals with different predispositions and brought fortitude to the power of art to coalesce.President Drew Gilpin Faust was meant to read an excerpt from her book...
Rosella Hightower, 88, a former ballerina, founded one of the world's most famous ballet schools and one of the art form's most notable prizes...