Word: dancers
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...even though playing a pole dancer seems like a stretch, Portman doesn't see this character as being that radical a shift from her past roles. "I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish one," she says. "Which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good sign." Though it's precisely what makes all those men worship her. By Joel Stein
...have been snowing outside, but inside the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, a small gathering of the elderly and the youthful were alternatively startled, stunned and awed by the lecture-demonstration on jazz improvisation and movement by acclaimed soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom last Friday afternoon. Accompanied by modern dancer Peentz Dubble, and moderator Tom Everett, Director of Harvard Bands, Bloom presented “An Exploration of Improvisation,” which focused on combining physical movement and improvisation as a jazz musician in the first of Harvard’s Office for the Arts?...
However, their musical and physical improvisation was not completely random. As an improvisational dancer, Dubble explained that there are conventions, like moving in unison or canon, that can unite spontaneous choreography. Bloom and Dubble set about parameters, like agreeing to explore the floor space and having the dancer follow the music...
...response to an audience question as to whether Bloom ever had to follow Dubble, rather than the dancer reacting to the music, the two women demonstrated with an example where Dubble initiated the improvisation. Their bodies were in actual physical contact for most of the piece. Within the tangle of limbs, Dubble would reach out and touch the barrel of Bloom’s saxophone, blocking the sound from coming...
...world. She mentioned that, early on, people had commented that they noticed her moving while she played. Laughing as she recounted this anecdote, she said that she was initially unconscious of her movement, but that she always had an affinity for dance and was a “closet dancer...