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Dancing feet jamming to the music in a sweat-filled room is a familiar scene on a weekend at Harvard. The Office for the Arts' guide to Harvard and Radcliffe lists seven dance companies on campus. The Radcliffe dance program offers over 10 classes in modern dance, modern jazz, ballet, choreography and tap. The Harvard Summer Dance Program, for which students from schools other than Harvard can receive credit, offers more than 17 courses in dance, choreography, dance history and dance writing. Yet not one course with the word "dance" in its title is given for credit at Harvard...
...that dance courses were ever consciously excluded from the curriculum, the Bakanowsky guidelines have made their incorporation virtually impossible. Creating dance classes with a "theoretical and/or historical dimension" is not difficult. Students at Skidmore can take an entire course on Balanchine [director and founder of the New York City Ballet]. And a course in dance criticism at Wellesley requires the class to watch performances by the Boston Ballet and critique them...
...exists, the administration cannot hire any faculty whose specialty is dance. Because the Bakanowsky guidelines require credit courses to be taught by a faculty member, Harvard's best chance of acquiring a credit course in dance would be if a prominent bio-chemist just happened to know a little ballet on the side...
...break happened none too soon. Martins took over running the company at George Balanchine's death in 1983, and he has had the ghost of the great choreographer shadowing his every move. He tried to put his personal stamp on City Ballet with his American Music Festival in 1988, but the grand effort was a failure...
...like to be presumptuous," says Martins. "I wanted this ballet here because this is the house of Tchaikovsky. Here we understand and revere him. Other companies have used the score like wallpaper music." In the dance world, those are fighting words. American Ballet Theater and San Francisco Ballet have recently restaged the work; Britain's Royal Ballet, the Soviet Kirov and Bolshoi companies have versions they consider historic. "Tchaikovsky's score markings are very close to what I want," notes Martins. "But people have been selfish through the years and accommodate themselves with slow tempi...