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...work that the Citystep instructors put in with the three individual classes from September to May is geared towards a massive, dramatic dance production held in April. This year's show, entitled Where Go Our Feet?, will be performed on the Loeb Theater Mainstage on Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
...show marks the culmination of the year's work. But participants say that the bi-weekly classes--and a special Saturday segment for more advanced students--are the most significant part of the Citystep program because they can have a direct impact on the lives of the school children...
...each 45-minute class, a Harvard undergraduate works with two or three children, teaching them simple dance steps. "We start with simple movements like how to move quickly and slowly--really basic things," says Citystep instructor Magdalena Hernandez '90. The movements gradually become more complicated, she says. The children pretend to be different animals including a borsch bear which is a really heavy movement", a "cool cat", a "slithery snake where they slither across the floor" and a "fierce fox where they run and jump...
...Citystep program goes into different schools each year, and instructors say the group's character varies by school. Vivian A. Newdick '89, who taught at the Harrington School last year and now teaches at Tobin, says that at Harrington "there was a more troubled student body as a whole." As a result the children in the dance classes were sometimes inattentive and unwilling to participate, she says...
...Citystep is also successful in breaking down the stereotypes that males may have about dancing, she says. "Dancing is cool and expressing yourself through movement is cool and that comes through to the boys as much as the girls," says Roth. "It's extremely successful in getting guys to loosen...