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...would an 11-year-old boy be interested in going with his aunt to see an evening of dance? In fact, why would anyone want to go to see an evening of dance? This is the very question that Against the Grain enthusiastically answers for its audience...
...audience watching the performance occurring on the stage. The parts are played by Jody E. Flader ’02 and Daniel A. Spitzer ’05, who do not dance in the show, but nevertheless turn in top-notch comic performances. The slight plot of Against the Grain, which nicely sets the stage for the dances, concerns the aunt taking her nephew to the ballet in order to open his eyes to the world of dance; the boy thinks he is going to a professional wrestling match. When he discovers that he is in for a night...
Against the Grain is a show not to be missed. If that phrase is thrown around too much, it is nevertheless appropriate here. There are very few opportunities on this campus to see a dance show performed in a high-quality venue, and this one takes advantage of its generous surroundings. Against the Grain provides a night of well executed, tremendously inspiring dance. And if it can believably reach both an 11-year-old boy and a dance afficionado, it should be met with adulation from the entire Harvard community...
AGAINST THE GRAIN...
...this out of the way first: It's a very un-American idea. By that I mean, it goes against our grain. Don't tread on me. Give me liberty or give me death. Or that bumper sticker you sometimes see out West, 'I love my country, but I fear my government...