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...Student dancers?? concerns about insufficient rehearsal space may be partially due to the recent rapid growth in their sheer numbers. Bergmann says that when the OFA last investigated dance participation at Harvard in fall of 2002, they estimated participation in Harvard’s 23 student dance groups and various open classes to be 700 undergraduates, an astonishing 10 percent of the undergraduate population. She estimates that an up-to-date count would reveal an even larger number. In the past five years, enrollment in the OFA’s dance classes alone has doubled to approximately...
Thursday, April 14 through Saturday, April 16. Dancers?? “Viewpointe V,” featuring new works commissioned by the Harvard Dance Program, selected student works and professional choreography. 8 p.m. Rieman Center, Radcliffe Yard. Regular tickets $10. Students and senior citizens $8. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...Moment to Muse” is a return to the classical style with which “Classic N’ Country” starts, and its dancers?? swirling paces match the rippling piano music. This piece is choreographed particularly well by Nancie Woods (staged by Kate L. Penner ’07), and the way that the ballerinas group together and then break apart effortlessly is impressive to watch. The stillness of the other dancers when one takes the lead especially underscores the restful musing in the title...
...Deeply Political Work” shifts the focus of Me in a Box from motion to meaning. Two performers (Neil G. Ellingson ’05 and Alex L. Pasternack ’05, who is also a Crimson editor) who epitomize the artistic stereotype of male dancers??complete with gauzy scarves and embarassingly tight tights—embark on a confusingly symbolic routine replete in artistic pretension...
...prop to skillfully illustrate its title subject in a superb mesh of graceful choreography and music (“Silence” by Delerium). The choreography is perhaps the best of the show, technically speaking; it retains the characteristic fluidity of Me in a Box despite its complexity. The dancers?? motions revolve around a gauzy red cloth that serves as a tangible boundary between the figures. Its presence sometimes separates one from the rest, but then brings the group together, stretching the “boundary” in physical reality and meaning...