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This performance will culminate the work of Citystep, a new arts outreach program which brings undergraduates into local elementary and junior high schools to teach students the art of dance theater. Over the course of a semester, the dancers hope to show the 10- to 12-year-old students how to express their emotions through movement and dance...
Sabrina T. Peck '84, who began Citystep and directs the program, explained, "For the undergraduates, Citystep combines ability to perform and dance sense with a feeling of community commitment...
...Citystep evolved from a production last April, in which 30 high school students joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Theater dormitories as soon as spring 1986, and interrelated dance scenes. The show played to a capacity crowd for two nights in Sanders Theater and gave its final performance on the mainstage of the Loeb Drama Center as part of the Monday night series of the American Repertory Theater...
...overwhelming success of the April performances prompted University administrators to pledge their support for Citystep. Myra A. Mayman, Director of the Office for the Arts, even helped arrange the show's final performance...
Peck said yesterday that in a petition to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III she stressed the relevance of Citystep's urban themes to the Harvard community and to the community at large...