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Turning his back to five hundred empty seats that will be filled this time next week, choreographer David F. “Ricky” Kuperman ’11 calls out instructions as the dancers mark individual movements and walk through formations. When Kuperman requests a full-out execution of a few eight-counts, the dancers unveil a spectacular range of movement, collectively brushing through a front “attitude” position into a stag leap and “chasse” effortlessly into two diagonal lines...
...Walker ‘11—one of the show’s directors and a performer—has a “cabriole” injected into her step sequence to smooth out a transition, while standardizing arm movements are added to an ensemble segment. Kuperman stops Kevin Shee ’11 to give him a pointer on the artistic delivery of his solo entrance: “This needs to be so grounded—like a mummy coming to life. Everything starts in the core of the body.” Shee follows Kuperman?...
Professional work will share the Mainstage with student choreography in “Momentum”, which will feature original pieces by Ricky D. Kuperman ’11, Nina K. Stoller-Lindsey ’10, and Patrick H. Quinn...
...choreographer, [I] want to walk a fine line between mime and dance,” Kuperman says, describing his approach to staging a narrative dance. “I find myself abstracting many of these plot points...
...brought movingly to life by Matt I. Bohrer ’10, who plays the physicist’s younger self. As Oppenheimer & Co. come closer to perfecting the “destroyer of worlds,” the biblical Adam (David F. “Ricky” Kuperman ’11) and Eve (Sarah T. Christian ’11) arrive to reflect on the Earth’s beginnings. There is also a trapeze...