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...figures,” or skill levels. Three professional coaches teach dancers at the syllabus stages until they become proficient enough to dance at a more independent “open level.” These coaches typically create the syllabus-level routines, but some partners choose to choreograph themselves with moves that fit their stages...
...choreographing “Mozart Dances,” Morris had an added consideration. Mozart’s music is notoriously tricky to choreograph to, Dyer explained to the audience. He mentioned that famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine himself allegedly claimed difficulty when setting dances to Mozart’s music...
...repertory except for one piece was preexisting. The new piece is a preview of something that I’ve been invited by the Ballet Company to do for the Loeb Mainstage in collaboration with Hans Tutschku, who is a wonderful electroacoustic composer. The ballet company wanted to pair choreographers with people on the music end. Hans and I have peripherally worked with each other already so it seemed like a natural fit. He’s a very responsive composer, both in terms of what he’s doing musically and also in terms of being aware...
...students choose Harvard, for Claudia F. Schreier ’08—recipient of the Office for the Arts’ Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize–dancing has been the most significant part of her undergraduate career. Although she began ballet as a toddler and has been choreographing since high school, Schreier believes that she has substantially developed both talents over the past four years. Schreier admits that upon arriving at Harvard she was a “bun-head,” or a very traditional dancer, but says her time here has allowed her to develop...
...singer can sing anywhere, why can’t a dancer dance anywhere?” Her curiosity and why-not attitude are two of Porter’s signature characteristics. Even her dog has become subject to Porter’s artistic experimentation, when she attempted to choreograph a routine for him. “I didn’t realize how much training he needed,” Porter now recalls. “I was very young, and I brought him on stage, and he just sat there. He could do a little at home...