Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps the authenticity in their presentation of "Les Sylphides" which made the evening's other offering, "Cinderella," such a disappointment by contrast. To dance a fairy-tale well, one must make it believable. Yet this "Cinderella" by resident choreographer Ron Cunningham distances the audience from empathy and belief. He sets up a series of cardboard figures, and proceeds to comment on them...
...morality tale, and the characters are conceived on this level. There are the ugly stepsisters (David Drummond and Larry Robertson), cavorting with bovine vulgarity, the shrewish stepmother (Elaine Bauer), and Cinderella herself (Laura Young), a painfully angelic victim. We can't be expected to take these people seriously, and Cunningham doesn't either. Large chunks of the ballet are given over to slapstick--the stepsisters squabble tug-of-war fashion over a shawl, or trip over each other to greet the Prince (Woytek Lowski). The liveliest moments are high comedy having nothing to do with ballet, and the work becomes...
Harvard dominated the game from the beginning. Surprisingly, though, Mleczko did not score the first goal. Rather, it was Carrie Cunningham who started the parade one minute into the contest, converting a pass from--that's right--Mleczko...
From then on it was Mleczko. She scored at two minutes, five minutes, eight minutes, 16 minutes, 20 minutes, and 23 minutes into the period. Wisty Oppenlander (one goal) and Carrie Cunningham (two goals) notched the other three goals in the period...
...second half, Mleczko cooled off a little, opening the door for other attackers to make their marks on the tally sheet. Ellen Seidler, Stefi Baum, and Cunningham each picked up one goal in the closing act. Cunningham's goal was a beautiful, sneaky backhand shot 20 feet to the right of the Huskie netminder...