Word: ballets
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That's simple enough. Now for the first wrinkle. "It appears that not all cartilage is created equal," says Dr. Roland Moskowitz, president of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. Ankles, for example, bear the same heavy loads as knees and hips. Yet most people, unless they're ballet dancers, don't get osteoarthritis of the ankle. Similar discrepancies show up in non-weight-bearing joints as well. The wrist, for example, is much less prone to osteoarthritis than the joint at the base of the thumb...
Patsy Kline’s soulful belting is not the standard soundtrack of the Harvard Ballet Company’s usually classical repertoire. But tomorrow night, as Kline croons out “I Fall To Pieces,” the company’s major performance of the year does anything but fall down, much less into pieces. Instead, the edgy first act—which also includes a ballet set to the soundtrack from the movie pi and another danced to opera music—is followed by selections of George Balanchine’s renowned choreography...
...just any university dance company can get the rights to perform Balanchine’s choreography—normally far too expensive for a 30-some member company like the Harvard Ballet. Co-Directors Katie S. Daines ’04 and Caroline L. Donchess ’04 were able to score the rights to use Balanchine’s moves in two dances free of charge because of Daines’ connection to the renowned School of American Ballet in New York City. Daines, as well as three other members of the company she says is saturated with...
...stuff,” she says. But the prestige of the choreographer is, if not met, at least approached by the talent of the company. The company boasts highly experienced performers, two of whom have taken years off to dance professionally for the likes of the New York City Ballet, the premiere dance company in the nation...
...names like “Goldman Sachs” and “Morgan Stanley,” might also fool you into thinking that Darst is just another ruthless capitalist. But he’s on his way to curing tuberculosis in the Third World. And he likes ballet...