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DANCE | Harvard Ballet Company’s Classic n’ Country
Although I do not know a lot about other student groups dedicated to the arts, I would imagine that the students involved in these groups recognize similar benefits. At the same time, while the dancers involved in Harvard Ballet Company are very enthusiastic about dancing, we rarely have the funding to fully realize all of our goals and ambitions, and this is a directly attributable to the fact that dance at Harvard is primarily extracurricular...
...DIED. ALICIA MARKOVA, DIED. ALICIA MARKOVA, 94, great 20th century British ballerina who popularized ballet in Britain and beyond; in Bath, England. In 1925 she became the youngest member of Ballets Russes, then the world's premiere company, and went on to work in Europe and the U.S. with such choreographers as George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in major troupes like the Vic-Wells Ballet and the first incarnation of the American Ballet Theater. Known for her unsnobbish passion, delicacy and range, she is indelibly linked to Giselle, a role she played frequently to fervent acclaim in productions throughout...
...production attempts the total modernization of the ancient text. It is immediately and unmistakably avant-garde, utilizing nearly every tool available to theater to explore the legend of Medea. The play is intricately choreographed, in many places more akin to modern ballet than to anything Euripides could have imagined...
...Massachusetts’ premiere choral institutions performs some of the greatest music ever written this weekend in Sanders. The Masterworks Chorale, conducted by Allen Lannom, has performed with the likes of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Boston Ballet. Now they present “Back: Magnificat, Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass.” Reserved seating, tickets range from $18-$39. Or try student rush and pay $5 cash at the door, but get there 1 hour early. 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre. (ECMV)MUSIC | Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky Rite of Spring