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Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks...
...ripe age of five, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 mounted a stage for one of her first performances. “I did this god-awful tap version of The Nutcracker,” she says without a hint of nostalgia. “The really little kids were cuter and they got to wear wings and halos, while we just got the ugly white leotards, white tights and black patent leather shoes...
Tacky costumes and a passion for performance have remained a part of Braxton-Brooks’ life ever since. She attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a magnet high school for the performing arts in Washington, D.C. There, after her academic day ended, she regularly spent 10 hours a day rehearsing. Cramming for tests in the corner of dance studios during breaks had positive consequences. “I can study anywhere now,” she says...
...what does she study at Harvard? Performance, of course. Braxton-Brooks crafted her own special concentration, “Performance Studies,” during the spring of her sophomore year. “I had a strong interest in studying performance theory, aesthetics and practice,” she says. “There really isn’t a department that offers that here...
According to Bergmann, over 600 Harvard affiliates—including graduate students and faculty—enroll in these courses each semester, which Braxton-Brooks describes as high caliber, widely accessible, inexpensive and “pretty low-stress...