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...deliberately irrational entertainment in which clowns, jugglers and acrobats capered across the stage. Flames shot up from nowhere. Flowers sprouted suddenly in a spittoon. A chorus stalked the aisles chanting a pitch for patent medicine. The hero was played by no less than three performers-a singer, a dancer and a magician. Before a note was even heard, the magician was hanging by his feet high over the stage, wriggling free of a straitjacket...
...Cohen, an Israeli dancer and choreographer now teaching at the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Program, will be performing Friday and Saturday night in Sanders Theater...
...started dancing as a young child in pre-partition Palestine. Despite their poverty, her parents were determined to give her as much culture as possible. Fortunately the neighborhood dance teacher was Gertrud Kraus, once a well known dancer-choreographer in Europe. At the age of 16 she began to study and perform with Rena Gluck of the Graham School. When Anna Sokolow came to Esrael around 1958, Ze'eva performed in her Lyrical TTheater. Sokolow was so impressed by the young performer that she offered Ze'eva a ticket to the United States so she could study on scholarship...
...piece follows the Graham technique. Two dancers stand on stage, bodies rigid, hands clasped around their waists, expressions stony. One faces two high-backed chairs, back to back, seating two onlooking dancers. The other faces an empty wooden stocks, a dancer behind. The music begins, slow at first but full of potent emotion. Their bodies become expressions of the music...
Downstairs Pamela C.R. Jones, a percussionist with the Jerusalem Symphony, teaches a course on "Music for Dancers." Across campus in Memorial Hall, Leon Collins, the great '40s tap dancer, leads students in the study of his art. And Iris M. Fangar, a dance critic and director of the Harvard Summer Dance Center teaches two courses, "Writing for Dance," and "Dance History." And this is just a sampling of the variety the Harvard Summer Dance Program has to offer...