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...Harvard (OFA). Growing up in a military family, few may have expected Altenburg to become a ballerina. She cites her unusual aptitude for “creative movement as a kid” that made dancing an outlet for self-expression. Altenburg studied at The Washington School of Ballet for seven years and recounts that she practiced from three to eight rigorous hours a day. She turned to dance with a professional ballet company when she took a year off after high school to join The Washington Ballet. For Altenburg, the transition from the harsh world of professional dance...
...across that stage in front of thousands of people, there’s nothing that can really frighten me.”The euphoria of that first performance inspired Cloud to devote herself to rigorous technical training at Ruth Williams Dance Studio in Harlem, where she took lessons in ballet, tap, and body percussion from teachers who had danced with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem.While the academic rigor of her high school, Horace Mann, didn’t allow her time to continue her technical training, Cloud became very involved with her school?...
...Dance Program of Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), dance may be the universal language, but speech and images are the universal communicants. “Dancers’ Viewpointe VI,” a two-act recital that spanned styles from classical ballet to jazzy modern, interspersed informative film-clips and spoken introductions to serve the dual purpose of educating viewers on the show’s content and cleverly distracting them from pauses between numbers. The vision of Artistic Director Elizabeth Bergman, the performance ran April 21 to 23. The recital was divided into two acts, with...
...principal dancer and artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company and is currently teaching Dramatic Arts 25: “The Artist Revealed: Martha Graham’s Work and Creative Process;” Heather Watts was a former principal ballerina with the New York City Ballet and had the opportunity to perform some of Balanchine’s most famous works; and Jennifer Scanlon was the former principal dancer in the Limón Dance Company.The producers, however, aren’t catering to a niche group of Balanchine buffs or Limón aficionados. A multimedia...
...role as co-director will preclude her participation onstage in the BFA pieces—since she is managing the show from backstage she won’t be able to spare the hour and a half necessary to create the traditional updo and makeup required of a Ballet Folklórico dancer—she will perform in the Danza Azteca piece “El Águila.” Wearing feathers and dancing as an eagle as a performance for the Aztec gods she will take part in a “tradition carried over...