Word: gandara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only thing that rivaled the choreography (and the excellent staging and execution of Gandara's choreography) was the light design; the Mainstage has never been awash in so much color. A veteran Harvard light designer, McGee outdoes himself in Dark Side of the Moon. Using virtually very lighting technique possible, McGee incorporates backlights, sidelights, audience-sweeping spotlights, an overwhelming carousels of colors, shadows, purple moons and spinning pinwheels of light to illuminate every angle and curve of the bodies pulsating on the stage. At moments, the lights are so grandiose that they threaten to overshadow the dancers themselves...
...indisputable highlight of the show came in the second half of the program, as Harvard dancers took to the stage for the entirety of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Using the choreography of Babil Gandara, the principal choreographer of the South Texas Dance Theater, Harvard dancers turned the Loeb Mainstage into a swirling, swarming arena of motion and light. Clad in bodysuits of various neon and tie-dyed colors, the dancers marched in perfect unison onto the stage in the opening number, "Speak to Me," like drones from a futuristic world where money clangs and clammers...
...only thing that rivaled the choreography (and the excellent staging and execution of Gandara's choreography) was the light design; the Mainstage has never been awash in so much color. A veteran Harvard light designer, McGee outdoes himself in Dark Side of the Moon. Using virtually every lighting technique possible, McGee incorporates backlights, sidelights, audience-sweeping spotlights, an overwhelming carousels of colors, shadows, purple moons and spinning pinwheels of light to illuminate every angle and curve of the bodies pulsating on the stage. At moments, the lights are so grandiose that they threaten to overshadow the dancers themselves...