Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holiday traditions in Kirkland have lost some of their religious purpose, a change made a virtual certainty given the diverse character of Harvard's modern student body," Lanson says...
...Mainly Jazz Dance Company, whose dance style is broadly-detined, might have had a harder time surprising the audience. From the first piece onward, though, the troupe managed to tweak the conventions of jazz and modern dance in a way that was consistently imaginative...
...dancers slinked around the stage, standing in small groups in the back, taking turns dancing carefree yet elegant solos frontstage. Even while standing at the back of the stage, the talented dancers maintained a powerfully cool presence. It was a pleasure to see the ballet dancers carry off modern choreography without a hint of stiffness but with all the smoothness and grace of a Tchaikovsky routine...
...dancers, Kimberlee Garris '01, Maiga Miranda '01 and Stefanie De Santis '00, danced to Melissa Etheridge's "Occasionally," a poignant, minimalist guitar-and-vocalist piece that Garris captured cloquently with personally expressive choreography. Jenny Weiss '99 (a co-director of Mainly Jazz) turned out equally excellent and thoroughly modern choreography for her piece. "Collision Course" which her group of dancers performed to the Talking Heads "Slippery People...
...plot. While one doesn't hear the phrase "I have Venus in my veins like a virus" commonly in everyday vernacular, its implications are understood. This production, like the new translation, voices the ethos of Racine's original but also escapes the stodginess of many contemporary takes on pre-modern plays...