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...people involved in rugby and rugby league will tell you that Polynesians are naturally suited to the sports. "Oh, they're gifted athletically, there's no doubt about it," says Peter O'Sullivan, recruitment manager for the Sydney Roosters NRL club. "It's not just size. It's balance, footwork, skill and strength." But attributing Polynesians' football prowess to inherent qualities can lead to the quicksand of racial stereotyping. In focusing on the physiques of Maoris and Islanders, it's easy to overlook other, perhaps more important, factors in their growing presence in elite football - motivation, hard work, and early...
...charming but often sloppy and uneven.“Dance of the Four Cygnettes” was particularly disappointing. Though one of the most difficult pieces in the “Swan Lake,” the four dancers began strongly. With interlaced arms, they performed the same quick footwork beautifully. Soon, however, they fell out of line, lacking the critical unison that makes “Four Cygnettes” so impressive and challenging. But the “White Swan” and “Black Swan” solos more than compensated for the missteps...
Helen Pickett’s “Eventide,” for example, was wondrously cosmopolitan. Pickett, one of the three female choreographers, merged classical East Indian music with that of Western composers for her score. The merger directed the movement. Dancers displayed quick, sharp footwork, but then surprised with slower, sensuous pair interactions. The piece culminated in a kinetic explosion. Set against the backdrop of an abstract expressionist painting, the corps and the principal dancers responded almost instinctively to musical cues. They splattered and dripped with the flick of Pickett’s brush...
...sound. Caitlin D. Driscoll ’11, Jennifer N. Kurdyla ’11, Natalie J. Peters ’09, Jayne Wolfson ’08, and Maya herself admirably combined the music’s more laid-back elements with the choreography’s demanding footwork...
...women from both Mainly Jazz and TAPS collaborated. In beautiful and brightly colored traditional Irish dance costumes, choreographers Siobhan P. Connolly ’08, Whitney L. M. Kress ’08, Meaghan J. Beattie ’08, Driscoll, and Fitzgerald performed complex sequences of incredibly fast footwork while keeping their upper bodies still with seeming ease. At the end of the piece, the music cut out and the dancers closed with an amazingly unified and increasingly rapid sequence of steps...