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Last Friday, The Harvard Crimson convened six panelists to discuss the space crunch affecting the arts community at Harvard, and to discuss their long-term visions of an ideal artistic space for Harvard’s actors, dancers, musicians and visual artists. Present were David P. Illingworth ’71, associate dean of Harvard College; Jack Megan, director, Office for the Arts; Robert Orchard, executive director, American Repertory Theatre; Jen Mergel ’98, tutor in arts at Adams House; Jeremy B. Reff ’04 and Adrienne M. Minster ’04. The panel...
Jack C. Megan: Just so long as David [Illingworth] then solves it. [laughs] The arts at Harvard are thriving. We have many, many performance groups and visual arts organizations, and the list seems to keep growing. Theater, we have roughly 60 to 70 productions that take place annually. In dance, we have dozens of concerts, not to mention classes and rehearsals for all of these things. In music, there are over 500 concerts given a year. All of this adds up to an incredibly dynamic and interesting environment for the arts. If there’s anything you?...
...David P. Illingworth ’71: I’d just to add a little onto what Jack was saying about the expansion of extracurricular activities. The numbers of groups has stayed pretty constant over the past ten years, but I think more students are involved in the groups that we have now; and part of the reason for that has something to do with the admissions office. The only way the admissions office has to distinguish among these very smart people in the applicant pool is to look at things other than academics, and extracurricular activities form...
...Illingworth: I’d build on what Jack said about cooperation, which I think is very important—not just for those of us who work in different administrative parts of Harvard, but for students to talk about how to share space and how to use what we have. I do think there is still more that we can do with spaces that we have not yet used and spaces that maybe people are holding a little close to themselves. Maybe we can come to a more cooperative way. People can share better...
...Illingworth: Rehearsal space is a problem. We’ve also got to be thinking about more 24-hour usage as well. Maybe some of the space can be used more efficiently. The music department is an academic department that’s facing a huge shortage of space right now. We can’t bring in professors if they don’t have a place...