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...thought, India can be not only the counter-Japan it's always seemed to be, but, in parts a corrective to Japan. The "Land of Wa" famously, ideally, functions like an orchestra in which everyone knows her part in a score designed to present a public harmony; India, by contrast, is a riot of competing interests in which everyone is flying off in a different direction. Yet what this also means is that when the government in Japan is paralyzed, the people tethered to it are equally oppressed; whereas India might be the story of individual energies working around...
...abundant resources skews incentives. Extracting wealth from the ground can look so easy that other sectors of the economy are starved of investment. Apart from Australia and Norway, it is hard to think of resource-rich nations that have used their natural endowments to build balanced economies. By contrast, some of the world's richest nations--Denmark, Japan, Switzerland--got that way without any significant stock of natural resources...
...contrast with those expansive views, Levitt also frequently collapses her depth of focus. Brick walls—blank or covered in graffiti—provide frequent backdrops, and for this reason her pictures could truly be anywhere, but they carry a special connotation because the audience knows it is New York. It begs the question: Were these pictures not taken in New York, would they carry the same emotive force? Given the set of ready associations that the city has in our cultural memory, likely not. However, this is Gotham unlike many have ever witnessed. Levitt?...
...jazz piece set to a medley of swing music. The simpler choreography allowed the dancers to revel in the high energy of the piece, at times merely exuberant while at others sexy. “Caprice” was not as clean as it could have been, especially in contrast to the other pieces in the show, but even this small defect did not detract from the value of the number. The light, sometimes almost mischievous tone made the piece highly entertaining for the audience, adding to the atmosphere of show as a whole...
Despite this, the audience was given the opportunity to watch a well-executed, traditional ballet that provided a contrast to the modern and jazz pieces in the rest of the show. When dancers perform a Balanchine work, certain standards and requirements must be met in order to ensure that the quality of the original is maintained in every performance. Therefore, it is an honor and a testament to the skill level of the Harvard dancers for the Dance Program to be able to present this piece...