Word: bergmann
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...dance center would begin over undergraduate Spring Break, still without air conditioning. However, after weeks of vocal dissent from the student committee, Dance Program administrators, and OFA staff, the [finance offices of] the Faculty of Arts and Sciences finally agreed to put air conditioning back into the construction plans. Bergmann, Larson, Weiss, and Hilby received this information last Tuesday morning, to the delight of my fellow dancers...
Both Dance Office staff and student dancers worry about the potential pitfalls of moving Harvard’s Dance Program to the Quad. “I hope the beautiful space will draw people out to the Quad,” Bergmann says with a smile, “If a student center is developed at Hilles, we could have a wonderful community environment...
While the new dance center at the QRAC will have one more studio than the Rieman Center, Bergmann doubts that this will be an adequate increase in available space. “If we had eight studios open from 4 p.m. to midnight, I bet they would all be filled,” says Bergmann. I am all too familiar with the problem of insufficient dance space, having resorted several times to holding rehearsals in small common rooms, hallways, and even my bedroom. “But what university has the luxury of eight studios?” Bergmann laments...
Student dancers’ concerns about insufficient rehearsal space may be partially due to the recent rapid growth in their sheer numbers. Bergmann says that when the OFA last investigated dance participation at Harvard in fall of 2002, they estimated participation in Harvard’s 23 student dance groups and various open classes to be 700 undergraduates, an astonishing 10 percent of the undergraduate population. She estimates that an up-to-date count would reveal an even larger number. In the past five years, enrollment in the OFA’s dance classes alone has doubled to approximately...
...addition to this explosion of students pursuing dance on campus, Harvard’s Dance Program has also experienced an increase in national attention. The newest student dance group, Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble (HCDE)—established and directed by Bergmann herself—has received an impressive set of honors...