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...hosted by the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM)—celebrated the Fogg before its summer closing for renovations. The courtyard was filled with food, live music, and plenty of people. Student guides led tours every 10 minutes, and the Harvard Ballet Company and the Harvard Krokodiloes held performances. Yichen Feng ’10 said she attended this third Night At The Fogg after enjoying the previous one. “I really liked the idea of socializing in a museum,” she said. In addition to the students...
...from a warhorse, the show today looks surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying. Unlike most of the other R&H shows, it is not set in an idealized small-town America or in a romanticized foreign land. There are no fantasy scenes or ballet-inspired dance numbers - the sort of things that gives shows like The King and I and Oklahoma their timeless, almost mythic quality. Yet that is not to say South Pacific is any less adventurous or innovative. This is a show in which the central love story - between Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and the middle-aged...
...taut physiques of four world-renowned ballet dancers bound back and forth across the Harvard Dance Center’s main studio. They’re wearing sneakers, and one of them is going the wrong direction. A good-natured Keith Roberts, longtime dancer with American Ballet Theater, is coaching them through the still unfamiliar choreography of “In the Upper Room.” One of Twyla Tharp’s most grueling and intricate works to date, the piece is slated to be performed during Boston Ballet’s upcoming season. This scene took place...
...involved many students intimately with the museums. Because of the upcoming closures, OUR HUAM hosted a final “Night at the Fogg” yesterday at 32 Quincy St., the large facility that houses the two museums. The event featured performances from the Krokidiloes and the Harvard Ballet Company, and between 500 to 600 people were expected to attend. “We think it’s important for people to see the Fogg the way it is now to pay tribute to it,” says Nora K. Lessersohn ’09, president...
...French Concession" - the old colonial name for the Luwan and Xuhui districts - although the almost exclusively white, champagne-sipping crowd certainly had something of a colonial air about it. The celebrity quota included actresses Melissa George, Jennifer Jason Leigh, January Jones and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and several generations of Ferragamo family members...