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...have Harvard to thank for his dancing dexterity. “The dances I made in high school were essentially me piecing together moves I’d seen before,” Okusanya says, “but that didn’t let me actually ever really choreograph a four or five minute dance. So Harvard, when I got here and saw what everyone else was doing on campus...it was like wow, I didn’t know I could do that...
Inspiration for his dances does not only come from his fellow students. “My muse is the music. I can always tell if I’m about to choreograph something once I hear the music. If a great beat hits my ears, I can see the dance...I can imagine how bodies fit to each element of the music. The positive competition of the dance world at Harvard also keeps Okusanya “challenged to do a little more.” He calls the atmosphere “competitive good-everyone’s always...
...people love matthew Bourne's shows - but not as much as Matthew Bourne does. The British choreographer gleefully admits to having seen his own production of Nutcracker over 200 times this year. "I really do genuinely love watching that show, it's so entertaining," says Bourne. His pleasure at his handiwork is palpable during rehearsals for his latest hit, Play Without Words, an adaptation of the sinister, hedonistic Joseph Losey film The Servant. As dancers create an atmosphere of sex and power through twisting, pulsing movements, Bourne's eyes are shining, his foot tapping to the jazz score. He throws...
...relinquish 50 hours a week to the paper, but brought me into a circle of the most amazingly warm, bright and dorky-fun people around. Where else could you play a game of keep-away with a stuffed animal, perform pirouettes around the newsroom in a dilapidated office chair, choreograph a routine to “Blinded by the Light” with a desk lamp or have philosophical discussions at 5 a.m. while massaging a cantankerous film processor...
...minimalist dance style has been labeled as East Asian, and he himself recognizes that there is a close connection between his Japanese heritage and the dance he creates. Because he had little dance training and “hardly any exposure to dance” before starting to choreograph, he wonders if the perceived Japanese influence in his dance originates from something innate...