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...DANCE IS TO PLAY, and to play is to be a kid. This is the message of CityStep, a dance theater production directed and choreographed by Sabrina T. Peck '84. The CityStep company, composed of 16 Harvard undergraduates, has combined forces with Cambridge public school children to produce a charming and witty dance extravaganza. As if this were not enough of a display of unique talent, the music is original as well, providing a particularly expressive accompaniment for the entire range of dances...
...general level, CityStep explores the question of what it means to be a kid growing up in the city. Fortunately, Peck doesn't use this theme as a spring board for heavy moralization Rather she seems just to have observed normal city school kids and to have captured their actions in dance. The choreography is sensitive to exactly how little children work. The dance entitled "Three Boys" is more a game in a school yard than a formal dance with conscious steps. It is about playing and skipping, fighting and pushing--all the essentials of a grade school friendship. Clad...
Peck effectively draws upon just these childhood memories. We are amused by the dances in CityStep not just because the children are so winsome, but because they are reminders of our own, still vivid, elementary school memories. In the dance "Classroom", Peck uses only members from the CityStep company, blurring the distinction between adult and child. Suddenly we are oack in that interminable fifth grade history class, bothered by that hotshot who always knows the answers, scornful of the peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets...
...Citystep, a children dance troupe under the direction of Sabrina T Peck '84, has been bringing Harvard students and kids from the Agassiz, Longfellow, Fletcher and King elementary schools together for two years...
...Mayor's proclamation, which he presented to an audience of several hundred on opening night, read, in part, that "Citystep has offered this city's youth a chance to develop confidence, discipline, and artistic expression through dance theater...