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University officials said they had high hopes for the Silk Road Project’s involvement in arts programming at Harvard...
With the swell of the orchestra, all of the dancers in the Festival of the Bells returned behind the married couple in the finale, dancing together toward the ballet’s jubilant conclusion. “Coppélia” is a testament to the high caliber of Kuranaga, Madrigal, and the rest of Boston Ballet’s technical and artistic skill...
...forward confidence; there’s a certain beauty in it,” Shelton explains. Every ballroom style has its own character that requires performers to act to the music, so costumes help dancers fit the parts. “You play a role of elegance and high class for Standard and a role of sex appeal for Latin,” Perez-Moreno says. These extravagant costumes require dancers to spend exorbitant sums of money to stay on top of their appearances—which often deters less-serious performers...
Alexis de Tocqueville is famously taught in American middle schools and high schools as the Frenchman who loved America and who wrote the treatise “Democracy in America” in the mid-19th century. There is usually no further discussion of the man or his famous book before moving on to material deemed more important by state-standardized testing boards. The motives behind Tocqueville’s mission are therefore overlooked and any meaninful insight into his character is completely lost...
...might think the audience of 3,000 Southern conservative activists would be inspired by the type of impassioned rhetoric that has made the high court a lightning rod of anger and agitation on both sides of the political spectrum for more than a generation. But speakers from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich to Governors Rick Perry and Haley Barbour bypassed hand-wringing over the potential implications of a liberal new Justice and the provocative, incendiary topics of abortion, guns and gay rights. Instead, they directed their fire at Obama's health care law, deeming it the ultimate manifestation...