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...Activities Fund is great, because the purpose of a student group isn't supposed to be worrying where the next check is coming from," said Xunhua Wong '01, co-business director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company...
...early date of the event posed even more of a problem for Harvard students, who had arrived at school barely a week before the Sept. 15 celebration. For example, the Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, a Harvard group that performed several traditional Mexican dances, crammed seven hours of practice into last weekend in preparation for the festival...
...City's Metropolitan Opera House rose to reveal a seedy-looking bar. A drummer rapped out four crisp rim shots, and three dancers in bell-bottom trousers charged onstage. One of them was a 25-year-old whiz kid from Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music, a raucously jazzy score by another...
...urban updating of Romeo and Juliet that was his (and Bernstein's) most enduring contribution to the American musical. But classical dance was his true love, and in 1969 he turned his back on the commercial theater to devote himself solely to George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, for which he made a string of masterpieces--among them The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun, The Goldberg Variations and, above all, Dances at a Gathering, an hour-long garland of sometimes sentimental, sometimes intensely romantic dances set to music of Chopin--that secured his standing as America's first great...