Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, it's all about the dancing, and it's a damn good thing Adler and Minyard beat those 20 long years of horrible odds to bring this sweeping, gorgeous spectacle to light. The hypnotizing waves of bodies in motion, and the pulsating madness of Pink Floyd's beats joined in ways crazy and serene, creating the single best student production I've ever seen on the Mainstage. The tremendous amount of dance talent on this campus came as a welcome and all-too-belated surprise to me; it's about time Harvard dancers received the venues, publicity and support...
...performance from start to well-concluded finish. But you don't miss these dramatic "necessities"--trust me, you hardly realize they're missing. Without characters and plot, an intricate and fascinating drama is created nevertheless through the intimate connection of footwork, supple bodies, hypnotic music and layers of soft light, leaving the audience entirely spellbound...
...when they set out to convince HRDC that dance belonged on the much-prized Mainstage spring program. Luckily for them and us, after multiple persuasive attempts Minyard and Adler finally convinced HRDC to end dance's long hiatus from the Mainstage, and Perpetual Motion was brought, literally, to glorious light...
...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 Quartre," 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 Pugni'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 designer Ryan McGee '98, Miriam Noble '00's seductive choreography created hypnotizingly proud and poised dancers...