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...Harvard dancers will be in a bit of a strange position this weekend, and it won’t be a split. They’ll have to contend with the usually unwelcome possibility that a promising but inexperienced upstart might steal the spotlight at their show, yet they don’t seem at all unhappy.That’s because the scene-stealing youth is not a dancer at all, but the new Harvard Dance Center, which this week’s Inaugural Gala Concert will celebrate. So far, the center has received praise from dancers...
Ayodola A. Adigun ’06 didn’t think of herself as much of a dancer when she came to Harvard. She’d been doing ballet for 10 years, but her heart wasn’t really in it. She was a star soccer player, not a twinkle-toed ballerina. Then, she saw a music video by Sean Paul, and everything changed. Smiling, Adigun settles into a Dunster dining room couch, remembering her first semester of her freshman year. “I remember the day. It was a Sean Paul, ‘Give...
...frosh weekend, I noticed a ballroom dancing show listed in our events pamphlet. Interested, I decided to go. Standing in the back of the room, ironically behind Miguel Arguellas ’06, who would become my dance partner later that summer, watching all the ballroom dancers, I thought, “Oh my God. I have to do this.”Acting on a dancer’s passion, Mariko contacted the president of Harvard’s ballroom team and was invited to sit in on a summer social dancing class.I took my first ballroom dancing classes...
...checked in with Emanuel at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) offices-he's the current chairman-and asked him to elaborate. He responded with a rat-a-tat of ideas and expletives, a joyousness unknown to Dems in recent years. But then, Emanuel, a former ballet dancer and Clinton White House capo, has always seemed a human amphetamine. I kept asking him to slow down as I took notes. He wouldn't, but here's the general idea...
DIED. FERNANDO BUJONES, 50, the greatest U.S.-born ballet dancer of his generation; of skin cancer; in Miami. In 1974 the 19-year-old son of Cuban immigrants became the first American male to win a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition. But Mikhail Baryshnikov's defection from the Soviet Union quickly overshadowed Bujones' feat--and the pair's later clashes at the American Ballet Theatre led Baryshnikov, who became the group's artistic director, to fire Bujones in 1985. A sought-after guest artist, he danced with 60 companies in 33 countries, partnering with Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova...