Word: kenney
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Produced by Valentine N. Quadrat ’09, the show integrates ballet, modern dance, vocal artists, and a live orchestra into a massive artistic endeavor. Directors Raymond W. Keller III ’08 and Sarah C. Kenney ’08 of the Harvard Ballet Company have coordinated with music director Shira R. Brettman ’08 to produce one of the most ambitious dance performances at Harvard in recent memory. In most of its pieces, “American Grace” more than meets these ambitions...
...show finds its center in the ironically titled “Who Cares?,” a piece choreographed by George Balanchine, perhaps the single greatest and most iconic choreographer of American ballet. Keller and Kenney strike the right chords in each of the four excerpts from the ballet. Their direction gives the classical origins and distinctly American flavor of Balanchine’s work full expression, and the dancers do justice to those complex themes...
...final piece ends “American Grace” on a whimsical note with Mark Morris’s “Polka.” The dancers execute Morris’s visually exciting choreography with enthusiasm, and the image that Keller and Kenney leave us with—one of all the performers united in a circle, evoking a primal sense of community in their movements—elegantly describes the unity of the show they have bound together thematically...
...show, which is being co-presented by the HBC and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), opens this Friday. But preparations started as far back as May, when Kenney and Keller began the long process of procuring the performance rights for an ambitious list of pieces that included works by acclaimed choreographers Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham, and Bob Fosse...
...It’s a giant step for the company, which typically produces more modest shows. “We would focus on one big thing, like the rights to one piece,” says Kenney. “American Grace” boasts a total of ten different pieces, and she adds that she’s not used to operating “on such a big scale...