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...hockey co-captain Julie Chu made the cut as one of three finalists for the 2007 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award by USA Hockey, announced Monday. The award, which honors the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey, will be presented at the Hilton Lake Placid Resort in Lake Placid, NY on March 17. Joining Chu among the finalists are Mercyhurst forward Meghan Agosta, the first-ever freshman to make the top three, and Wisconsin forward Sara Bauer, the 2006 winner. Chu has 66 points this season, and leads the nation with 2.28 points per game...
...their similarities, the two come from completely disparate backgrounds. Chu honed her skills at Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Wallingford, CT. After graduating in 2002, she became the first player of Asian descent to play for the U.S. National Team at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, where her team took home the silver. She then went on to star at Harvard, until the national squad called again for its bronze medal showing at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. This season, Chu is back with the Crimson, capping off the farewell tour of her illustrious...
...Bolshoi and elsewhere, choreography is embracing shorter, smaller-scale pieces, and that trend has led to a dearth of big-star roles. "People aren't choreographing for stars anymore - they're not doing Swan Lake," says Lynn Garafola, a dance historian and author of Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Increasingly, it's choreographers like Ratmansky who are taking their place as ballet's headliners. In one of Ratmansky's most celebrated moves, for example, in 2003 he restaged Bright Stream, the full-length ballet by radical Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which Stalin banned shortly after it premiered in Moscow...
Full disclosure: I have two young sons, and if anything, Pollack gets my experience unsettlingly right. I live in Brooklyn, which along with the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles is the apparent epicenter of the hipster-parent movement. When one of my kids requests the Magnetic Fields on the iPod, I swell with pride as fathers of another era did when their sons completed touchdown passes. And if it's easy to criticize Pollack's preciousness, it's because, like a good, self-aware Gen Xer, he does it for you. "I wonder," he writes, "what Ariel Dorfman, Primo...
Seven years ago the stage was set for the premiere of Birdbrain, choreographer Garry Stewart's first work for Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide. The new artistic director had opted for a contemporary version of Swan Lake, and when a video screen on stage displayed the word begin, nothing could have prepared the audience for the dance explosion that ensued as the worlds of ballet and techno music collided. Stewart's dancers deconstructed the story of Prince Siegfried and his dying swan Odette in T shirts wittily printed with words such as doom, lust, sieg and fried. But more amazing...