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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...
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...
Another obstacle to expanding Harvard’s academic dance offerings is student enrollment, which has been “disappointingly low,” according to Bergmann. There are six students currently enrolled in Dramatic Arts 16, and during the 2003-2004 school year, 11 students enrolled in Dramatic Arts 14, and 12 students enrolled in Dramatic Arts...