Word: lightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perpetual Motion, the first Mainstage show of the semester, Harvard dancers take their foot work and finesse to the Lobe Mainstage for the first time in over 20 years, beautifully proving that they well deserve this long-awaited spot light. Until this past weekend, campus dance performances seemed forever confined to lecture halls and small performance spaces hardly capable of illuminating the subtle beauty and powerful art of dance in live performance. Directors Daphne Adler '99 and Kiesha Minyard '99, both past co-directors of the Harvard Radcliffe Ballet company, obviously knew that the Mainstage is an ideal venue...
...featured a wide-mix of dance and music styles, giving even the most dance-illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quarter," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugin's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night, Elizabeth...
...dance to Maurice Ravel's beautiful impressionist piece, "Bolero," more than made up for West Side Story's annoyances. Under the shadowed, sultry lights of talented light designed Ryan McGee '98, Miriam Noble '00, seductive choreography created hypnotizingly proud and poised dancers...
...program, as Harvard dancers took to the stage for the entirety of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Using the choreography of Babil Gardera, the principal choreographer of the South Texas Dance Theater, Harvard dancers turned the Loeb Mainstage into a swirling, swarming arena of motion and light. Clad in bodysuits of various neon and tie-dyed colors, the dancers marched in perfect unison onto the stage in the opening number, "Speak to Me," like drones from a futuristic world where money clangs and clammers in everyone's gigantic communal ear. The safety of conformity and seduction...
...only thing that rivaled the choreography (and the excellent staging and execution of Gandara's choreography) was the light design; the Mainstage has never been awash in so much color. A veteran Harvard light designer, McGee outdoes himself in Dark Side of the Moon. Using virtually very lighting technique possible, McGee incorporates backlights, sidelights, audience-sweeping spotlights, an overwhelming carousels of colors, shadows, purple moons and spinning pinwheels of light to illuminate every angle and curve of the bodies pulsating on the stage. At moments, the lights are so grandiose that they threaten to overshadow the dancers themselves...