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Exercising in the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is rarely as glamorous as it was this weekend at the 15th Annual Harvard Invitational Ballroom competition. The competition, which drew competitors of all ages and from all over the country, was judged by internationally accredited officials over two days. The dancers came from a variety of backgrounds and training, and were divided into four different subgroups according to ability and experience: newcomer, bronze, silver and gold. Prizes for the top dancers included gift certificates for dance apparel stores, free lessons, and cash prizes. Many of the more advanced dancers vied...
...looked for people who could express as much with their faces and actions as they do with their lines. Newcomer Rudy Youngblood, 25, a movie-star handsome Comanche and Cree Indian who plays the Apocalypto hero named Jaguar Paw, grew up in Texas and had been a grass dancer with the Native American Dance Theater before Gibson found him last year. "As a dancer, I know how to tell a story with my eyes and my body, which is the kind of acting this film requires most," says Youngblood. "But I also have ancestors who fought at Wounded Knee...
...more casual dancer, Saturday’s Hanlon-Ford Winter Ball will include not only the deciding rounds of the championships and a professional show, but an opportunity for social dancing with a live band. Though the ball is billed as a “formal gala event,” Mikuckis emphasizes his desire to make top-tier ballroom dancing more approachable to the Harvard community...
...Bhangra dance. The dance, punctuated with daring stunts such as the “Death Necklace,” drew cheers from the crowd. Performed by Aabed B. Meer ’06 and Armen I. Yerevanian ’08, the act consisted of a male dancer who wrapped his legs around another dancer’s neck and was whipped around the stage in a circle. The Tabla Ensemble, a group of four drummers, combined spoken word lyrics with pulsating rhythms. Sketches satirizing Indian culture bookended acts like the Raas Gujarati dance, which was performed with sticks. Tickets...
...decorate faces, flowers, and animals.The psychedelic style is as ingrained in our culture now as the Grateful Dead’s sound, which makes it all the more fascinating to see the conception of this aesthetic here.Changing colored lights illuminate several prints, which respond with movement—a dancer pulsates, a butterfly flaps its wings in the once lifeless paper.Suddenly, not only are you no longer in cold Boston, but you are not in 2006. Time has sped backwards and your mind is expanding: you are there at a Doors concert, tripping, in 1967 San Francisco...