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...indeed: these international students seem to be quick studies. Both Palmer-Amaning and Kabue, perhaps spurred on by their love of grinding, have spent time in the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club, something that has earned some gentle mockery from friends back home. But Palmer-Amaning found his new-found skills served him well. “It is a very useful skill to know how to turn a girl around,” he explains. Kabue, though, has a slightly less positive view of the practical benefits of learning to dance at Harvard. “I think...
...Gates' Bedroom and Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse) disturbs mainly by inference. A traditional oil on canvas, it refers to the patriotic legends of 19th century history painting. There is no glory here, though. All we see is the detritus of revolution: blood vividly stains the walls of a deserted ballroom stripped of everything but some random litter and a tacky chandelier. Many of these artists take aspects of life that earlier generations painted, drew or wrote about and render them in photos, film or video art. Mike Marshall doesn't paint sun-dappled scenes but his video clips, such...
...classic story: Prince Charming (the Italian Prince Ramiro, played by Frank C. Napolitano ’05) disguises himself as his personal valet (all the better to be the voyeur with, my dear!), and a pair of golden bracelets replaces the glass slipper Cinderella leaves on the ballroom steps, so that none of the actors go unshod—a distinct taboo in the days of Roman censors...
Brown says her small-town background has motivated her to explore Boston—she goes to movies, stores and dance clubs as much as she can. She excelled in her most recent ballroom competition, and she’s been invited to join Pleiades, a new women’s social club. Meanwhile, her brother Jared has applied to Harvard, and Brown hopes he’ll have the honor of being the second person from her high school to attend...
...crowd this year included 1,800 people, which Nelson said was the biggest Dyke Ball ever. As recently as last year, Dyke Ball was held in Wellesley’s Alumni Hall ballroom, which has only a 600-person capacity, but this year WLBTF dressed up the Wellesley Field House for the Ball to accommodate larger crowds...