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...very important to know your history,” Andrien says, “and not just to know it; to dance it.”This new performance is the latest in a steady series of steps forward that dance here at Harvard has taken. Under Bergmann??s guidance, the program has steadily expanded. Claudia F. Schreier ’08, who dances in “fallen,falling,” felt that she would have to put dancing behind her when she chose to go to Harvard over dance school. But, she says, the Harvard...
...dancer Doris Humphrey. According to Adam R. Singerman ’09, the 13 dancers in the piece have been practicing a minimum of three hours per week since just after shopping period. Another piece in the show, concert opener “Homage,” is Bergmann??s tribute to her own mentor and former teacher—Limón himself. “Homage” is performed to the mandolin and consits of two sections: the first is set to Heitor Villa-Lobos and tends to be amorphous and less structured, while...
Following this exploratory composition, the Dance Program presented Elizabeth Bergmann??s “Saudades.” In another dance that combined the seemingly ill-fitting, three dancers, two clad in red dresses not inappropriate for salsa-dancing, performed a kind of stilted sexy salsa step while—not a meringue mix—but a classical piano soundtrack stuttered in the background...
Student and alumni dancers share Bergmann??s concerns about sufficient dance space on campus. Alumnus and longtime dancer Yamaguchi hopes that the University administration will not limit its support in expanding performance and rehearsal space to this current construction project...
Needless to say, I supported Larson and Bergmann??s desire to expand these academic offerings. Bergmann has already discussed the possibility of creating interdisciplinary performance studies classes with other faculty members, including Hans Tutschku, Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, and various Dramatic Arts and VES professors. She said she received a positive, enthusiastic response to the idea, but the other faculty members all said they were already too busy to add such classes to their schedules...