Word: balletic
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...Caitlin M. Campbell ’09, Saturday’s international theme was inspired by Harvard’s recent initiatives—from encouraging study abroad to the far-reaching curricular review—to give students a global perspective. Over 20 members of campus groups, from Ballet Folklorico to Harvard Model United Nations, put on four workshops for the girls. While a panel of three international students answered questions and helped the girls decorate mock passports in one classroom, another shook as students in Gumboots and Ballet Folklorico taught step dances from South African mines and Mexico...
...That’s Kevin Shee ’10, a self-proclaimed “Ballerino,” hailing from Sacramento, California. A former tap and jazz dancer, he began taking classes at age five and moved on to perform professionally with the Bay Area Peninsula Ballet Theatre when...
...took a year off to decide whether to come to college,” he says. In the interim, he earned an apprenticeship with a Portland, Oregon ballet company and applied—successfully—to Harvard...
...He’s not the only one. Before coming to Harvard, Moore had also performed with well-known companies throughout the world, including the American Ballet Theatre in New York, the Royal Ballet in London, the Salzburg International Ballet Academy, and Ecole Supérieure de Danse Cannes Rosella Hightower in France. After graduation, she turned down a contract to dance professionally in favor of pursuing academics...
...Here at Harvard, Moore is convinced that ballet and studying would now be impossible to separate...