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Freshman Courtney Stimpson and Sophomore Eleanor Cunningham played the only five-game matches of the day. Stimpson came back after losing the first game, 8-15, to win three of the next four to collect the victory...
...Ellie Cunningham absorbed a heart- breaking 3-2 loss, falling 15-13 in the decisive fifth game to Tufts' Pam Esserian...
...were really good last year, but we have some new blood and we're going to be even better this year," team member Ellie Cunningham said yesterday...
...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...
...interludes in a 19th-century opera, dance merely embroiders diverting decorations. Dancers dance only when one would expect the characters to do so--Cinderella daydreaming with her broomstick, or the guests waltzing at the royal ball--and the content of the movement is a trite and anonymous classical pattern. Cunningham's choreographic vocabulary is limited, ignoring both the music (a beguiling Prokofiev score) and any place of space outside the lateral extension of center stage...