Word: mallardi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was something stirring about watching the choreographers watch Mallardi. All of them hoped to become dancers, or at least to make dance an important part of their lives. They were a small group devoting a huge amount of time and energy to dance and living an aesthetic experience at Harvard, not studying...
When Claire Mallardi came to Harvard in 1965 to teach courses in dance, she began an annual tradition of holding a spring performance of dances choreographed by her students. The concerts have been steadily growing in size, and this year's will be held on the Loeb Mainstage, following years at the Hasty Pudding Club and the Agassiz Theater...
...most important issue facing the company is the definition of Mallardi's role in it. The topic is highly sensitive. On the one hand, the performances grew out of an aspect of Mallardi's overall dance program. On the other, there is a real possibility that the positions of dance instructor and artistic director of the dance company will eventually have to be divided. It is the responsibility of the board to appoint the staff of the company, including the position of artistic director. A test of the board's effectiveness in staffing its organization occurred two weeks ago, when...
...Mallardi's high standards and excellent background have served to increase the interest in performing. In addition, there has been a surge in participation in dance at all levels. According to Myra Mayman, coordinator for the arts at Harvard, the number of Harvard and Radcliffe students enrolling in dance classes has been increasing steadily for the last 20 years...
...difficult to see why dance is funded through the Office for the Arts at all. The Music and Visual and Environmental Studies Departments, and the Loeb Drama Center, are funded by the Faculty. Although Mallardi teaches five courses, runs the dance company and conducts an individual tutorial in the history and philosophy of dance, she is hired by the arts office to one-year contracts. Instead of enjoying the ample salary and artistic freedom that tenure supposedly provides to the typical Harvard professor, Claire Mallardi runs her dance program on the principles of sacrifice and devotion to her work...