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Coordinators have planned a variety of entertainment events, including performances by the Ballet Folklorico Dance Company and the Harvard Band, who both participated in the past. Jugglers and other performers will be on hand as well...
...curious that it should have taken so long. There was not even a full- scale biography of Degas until 1984, when Roy McMullen's Degas: His Life, Times & Work was published. Aspects of Degas's work -- mainly his ballet paintings from the 1880s -- have long been popular with a broad audience, too much so for their own good. But he has never been a "popular" artist like the wholly inferior Renoir, whose 1985 retrospective in London, Paris and Boston beguiled the crowds and disappointed everyone else. Degas was much harder to take, with his spiny intelligence (never Renoir's problem...
...affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape, 1868-69); a laundress's yawn; the stoned heaviness of an absinthe drinker's posture before the dull green phosphorescence of her glass; the exact port of a dandy's cane; the professional absorption of the petits rats of the ballet corps; the look in a whore's eye as she sizes up her client; the revealing clutter on a writer's desk...
...Wang Center has attempted to cope with the problem by improving the orchestra pit, a spokesperson says. The ticket prices at the Wang Center reflect these renovations, as each ticket includes a 50 cent restoration fee. The theater is currently showing the Boston Ballet's production of La Sylphide, which will run until October 16. South Pacific is the next scheduled show...
...Wang Center does offer some student discount tickets, but the availability depends on the individual production. The Boston Ballet provides its own student discounts...