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Also on the concert’s program are works by two members of the Harvard Dance Program’s own faculty. Harvard Dance Director Elizabeth W. Bergmann has re-staged her quartet “They Say We Travel the Same Road” for student dancers to perform in the upcoming production. Bergmann, a Julliard graduate who initiated the Viewpointe series ten years ago, said of the all-women ensemble: “[The piece] is about the idea that in life, while we may sometimes fight with the people around us, we ultimately support each other...
Harvard jazz teacher Jodi L. Allen will also be presenting her own piece, entitled “Breathe.” According to Bergmann, Allen’s choreography is sure to be “a really physical, exciting addition to the Viewpointe show...
...Rush Hour.” Yale’s performance will feature an original, contemporary West African piece by Lacina Coulibaly. “I’m as interested as anybody to find out about their programs and to see them dancing,” says Elizabeth Bergmann, the Dance Center director who helped to organize the event and will take part in a panel discussion...
...Bergmann, until dance achieves a status equal to academic departments on campus, the program, despite its improvements, will stagnate. “I think we’ve gone as far as we can go until we move into more curricular focus,” she says...
...Will we get more money? Will we get more courses in dance? I don’t know,” Bergmann says of the show’s potential ramifications. “That depends on who comes, who might get influenced, who has a voice. I think that we can hope for some changes...