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Video games are an unusual medium in that they carry a heavy stigma among nongamers. Not everybody likes ballet, but most nonballet fans don't accuse ballet of leading to violent crime and mental backwardness. Video games aren't so lucky. There's a sharp divide between gamers and nongamers, and the result is a market that, while large and devoted--last year video-game software and hardware brought in $27 billion--is also deeply stagnant. Its borders are sharply defined, and they're not expanding...
...slightly awkward ballerinas.“When I was five, I walked pigeon-toed,” says former captain Patricia L. Pringle ’07, with some embarrassment, while talking over coffee. “My father suggested that ‘maybe she should start taking ballet.’”Former captain Kimberly M.Y. Chang ’06 laughs and adds that she slouched as a child and that ballet was also suggested as a remedy. Chang and Pringle, now lithe and limber, are part of the 13-woman CDT, whose performance this...
...isn’t your thing, don’t fret. The Arts First Dance Festival, occurring all day Saturday, May 6 in Lowell Lecture Hall, includes a wide array of dance styles, from the culturally rooted Harvard Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble to the Balanchine-esque Harvard Ballet Company. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company, Harvard’s oldest student dance troupe, will be featured in the show as well. Mai-King C. Chan ’06, one of the directors of HRDC, says that the group will be sticking with its modern-dance roots...
...Arts First Dance Festival, occurring Saturday May 6 in Lowell Lecture Hall, includes a wide array of dance styles, from the culturally rooted Harvard Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble to the Balanchine-esque Harvard Ballet Company...
Deviating from the more traditional dance forms represented by companies such as The Harvard Ballroom Dance Team and Harvard Ballet Folklorico, is Mainly Jazz, a company which presents a mix of jazz, hip-hop, and funk. Choreographer Shruti E. Saini ’06 incorporated moves from her background in cheerleading and dance team to create a high energy piece set to 90’s hits like “Love Shack,” “Baby One More Time” and everyone’s all-time favorite, the “Macarena...