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Wadsworth began work on Songs in 1984 after Claire Mallardi, a Radcliffe instructor and coordinator of dance, suggested the man as a subject. Collins, after a 14-year career hiatus, had opened a dance studio in 1977 and later joined the faculties of the Radcliffe Dance Program and the Harvard Summer Dance Center...
...Claire Mallardi, Radcliffe dance program coordinator, also received a grant which she will use to choreograph and perform an original dance piece...
Gender roles are losing their definition as well, according to Mallardi. "Girls can play sports, because aggressiveness is accepted. And likewise, boys can dance...
...Mallardi says that dancing is increasingly influenced by sports. "It's more physical--lots of speed and repetition. It's getting hard to tell the difference between the two." She adds that the high energy of this production helps demonstrate how dance and athletics are merging...
Dancer Tanya Fedoruk '87, notes that Mallardi's teaching style does not encourage a strict mimickry of a pattern of movements, but rather an ongoing, fluid process of change. "She changes her mind all the time. As a dancer/athlete, you're part of the development of the piece...