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Until then, the office will continue to offer the kind of intense programs it has been coordinating for the last six years. Claire Malardi directs the developed dance program. Affiliated with the Cambridge School of Ballet, the program includes instruction in ballet, modern and jazz dance as well as concerts and workshops in dance. Although Malardi believes no credit for dance courses forces students to make dance a second priority to graded course work, she praises the program for supplying intellectual and philosophical instruction as well as many students' outstanding dedication...
Ackerman is joined by Claire Malardi, head of the Harvard-Radcliffe dance program, who sees the lack of course credit as a major drawback in the dance program. "Because the kids don't get credit for what they do in the studio, it inevitably takes backseat to their graded classes," she says. "Time and energy-wise, the teacher is up against a real battle." Still, Malardi praises the dance program and the students for their dedication and admits that one benefit of the no credit policy is the near-total absence of pressure and competition. In the long run, however...
...Malardi says that she resents the Harvard philosophy that dance is a purely physical activity and maintains that she and her fellow dance instructors include a theoretical side to their instruction...
...shift towards credibility for the arts as Bakanowsky calls it--will become a more public issue. Until then, for many students and professors, pursuing the arts at Harvard will remain frustrating. "Sometimes I feel that if you're in the arts you shouldn't be at Harvard," says Malardi but she, and many others, stay with hopes for change. Meanwhile, the arts survive here, as well as an ungraded fifth course...
After graduating, she studied with Claire Malardi, who teaches dance at Harvard during the academic year, performed in Boston, and wrote dance reviews for the Boston Phoenix...
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