Word: ballets
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...Gotta Dance Missed last weekend’s once-in-a-lifetime “Swan Lake” performance by the Russian Kirov Ballet? To make up for your cultural ignorance, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (that’s so Cambridge...) presents a preview of the Boston-based dance company Snappy Dance Theater’s original production, “String Beings.” According to Snappy’s website, the performance “explores the relationship between manipulating and being manipulated.” Don’t forget your rape whistle...
...toeing gait of a serious ballerina. I can guess why she's in my office: her foot hurts. She walks without pain, goes to school, even gets through gym class pretty comfortably-but she can't dance. A big dance recital is coming up-dancers from the famous ballet company in the city will be there to watch her-and she wants to be "back to normal" by then. She and her Mom want to know when this pain will go away...
...designed lighting for the original Woodstock rock festival, for the Boston Ballet and for the New England Aquarium. And then there were 30 to 40 student shows a year at Harvard. Yesterday his friends and family remembered Alan P, Symonds ’69-76 with, among other things, an original composition commemorating the notorious fire safety speech with which he preceded performances. “There was as much crying as there was laughing,” said Matt J. Corriel ’05 who performed “The Fire Speech Song...
Produced by Valentine N. Quadrat ’09, the show integrates ballet, modern dance, vocal artists, and a live orchestra into a massive artistic endeavor. Directors Raymond W. Keller III ’08 and Sarah C. Kenney ’08 of the Harvard Ballet Company have coordinated with music director Shira R. Brettman ’08 to produce one of the most ambitious dance performances at Harvard in recent memory. In most of its pieces, “American Grace” more than meets these ambitions...
...show finds its center in the ironically titled “Who Cares?,” a piece choreographed by George Balanchine, perhaps the single greatest and most iconic choreographer of American ballet. Keller and Kenney strike the right chords in each of the four excerpts from the ballet. Their direction gives the classical origins and distinctly American flavor of Balanchine’s work full expression, and the dancers do justice to those complex themes...