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Weiss believes Against the Grain is particularly well suited for its task because it challenges what some students find unappealing about dance. “People in general often think that dance shows are boring,” said Weiss, who is Director of the Harvard Radcliffe Ballet Company. She maintains, however, that each piece in the show will defy typical complaints about old-fashioned presentation and traditional gender hierarchy...
Weiss’s piece, “The Four Temperaments,” was originally choreographed by Balanchine, the Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer who moved ballet away from fairy tales and fluffy tutus and instead emphasized balance and angular, technical movement...
Finally, Derrick Sellers’s “Warning: This May Cause” rebels against static views of dance with daring style and eclectic sound. A rock ballet, the piece features music by Björk and techno artist Aphex Twin...
...saga began in 1978, when Bayly, then 21 and a ballet student, met Yukawa, a London-based executive for Sumitomo Bank. They fell in love, though Yukawa, then 49, had two grown sons and a wife, who was confined to a hospital with brain damage after a car accident. When Yukawa was reassigned to Tokyo, he brought along Bayly and their newborn daughter Cassie...
...Bayly remembers Aug. 12, 1985. Eight months pregnant and jittery, she pleaded with Yukawa not to take a last-minute business trip to Osaka. He placated her over a boxed sushi lunch. "We walked together to Cassie's ballet school," Bayly recalls. "He kissed me, patted my stomach and said: 'Take care of my last creation.'" A few hours later, the TV flashed news of the crash...