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...Salad Days” aren’t just dinners in the dining hall when the hot meal seems less than appealing. A phrase first penned by Shakespeare, “Salad Days” is also the title choreographer Sara Hook gave to the production comprised of seven of her short, satirical dances that took place Saturday evening at the Harvard Dance Center. In addition to being the Harvard Dance Program’s opening production this season, “Salad Days” was first show entirely made up of pieces choreographed by Hook...
...oldest of the evening’s dances were first performed in 1998, while Hook also included one world premiere, itself titled “Salad Days.” The show featured Mary Cochran, Paige Cunningham, Angela Fleddermann Miller, David Parker, and Erika Randall...
...dancers have worked extensively with Hook in the past, and all of them are also close friends. For instance, the choreographer and Mary Cochran, a former soloist with Paul Taylor Dance Company, have been friends since high school. David Parker is another longtime friend. “We’ve collaborated on a lot of work, and we’re really close friends,” Hook says of him. “He’s a Boston native, and our work has similar aesthetic trajectories and inquiry with building movement language that reconsiders relationships between body...
Haviland’s knee-buckling curveball didn’t hurt, either, and professional hitters were just as stumped by his signature hook as his former Ivy foes were. As he split time as a starter and a reliever in 18 appearances in Vancouver, the righty struck out 61 batters over 54.1 innings en route to a 3.48 ERA. In one start, he notched 10 punchouts in just four frames of work...
...time, the halibut season had become a 48-hour scramble to catch the most fish allowed by law, according to Linda Behnken, director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association and a commercial fisherman in Sitka since 1982. "No matter what the weather was, everyone with a line and hook was going out," says Behnken. "And this is Alaska. The weather gets bad here. Boats went down. Lives were lost." Things got even worse when the fishermen all returned with their catches at the same time, flooding the market and driving down the profits they were risking their lives...