Word: choreographing
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...have a dance major, and almost all of the work we do is extracurricular and student-run. So, we have no choice but to be creative—to take our ideas and run with them. While dance professors at other schools may formally teach their majors how to choreograph or dance, at Harvard we teach ourselves, and as a result, our artistic output is fresh and vibrant. From my experience, this is also true of the music and theatre scenes, which allows for a lot of cross-disciplinary artistic endeavors...
...addition to taking dance classes through the Office for the Arts since my freshman year, I perform and choreograph for several companies. This is my second year serving as Co-Ballet Mistress of the Harvard Ballet Company, meaning I run rehearsals, stage ballets, and choreograph. It’s a job I love completely! I’ve also performed in dance shows at the Loeb and I submit works for Arts First every year. On the administrative side, I’ve been doing a lot of work lobbying for a new space for dance and planning...
...been performing since third grade and so it was really fun to choreograph and do some of the things I’ve grown up with,” he said, “and bring it to the Harvard community where you don’t necessarily talk everyday about what you did at home and how you grew up and traditions like that...
...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...