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Dancer, actress, and choreographer—Helen Pickett is a sensation in the world of ballet. For over a decade, she held the position of principal dancer in famed choreographer William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt. Her newest piece, “Tsukiyo (Moonlit Night),” which was commissioned by Boston Ballet director Mikko Nissinen, considers the complexities of human interaction in the setting of a Japanese fairy tale. The Office for the Arts’ Dance Program will bring Pickett to campus today at 7 p.m. to discuss the upcoming world premiere of her piece, which...
...that their lands, fertile and rich in minerals, could be sold without an unpleasantness to various U.S. capitalists ... On the Andean slopes near Bogota, the Indian peon must still give a day's work without pay to get the hacendado's permission to farm his own plot on moonlit nights...
...Street Culture, when models exchanged their stoic strutting for hip-hop dancing. The men sported shiny Ed Hardy hoodies, jeans, and hats. Women wore baggy cargo pants and tanktops. “I wanted to show the different styles of Asian street dancing and clothes,” said Moonlit M. Wang ’10, the creative director of Street Culture. During this segment, the models alternated between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean street dance styles. In a high-point of the performance, the audience erupted in applause during a mock dance-off between male and female models. The student...
...even fewer can wield it with his deftness and poise. His research into 19th century nautical manifests led him to the lascars, a fascinating pan-Asian community of sailors employed aboard nearly all European craft in the Eastern hemisphere. Some of the book's most affecting passages involve their moonlit gatherings aboard the Ibis' deck, singing songs, swapping tales and forging a globalized identity long before such things were ever in vogue...
...clothes,” said Tran. “Identities is making a statement on a larger scale and bridging concepts and clothes.” The Hip-Hop section illustrated the difference between the East and the West. Creative directors Natasha M. Platt ’10 and Moonlit M. Wang ’10 said the exposure to Western culture influences the Asian hip-hop scene in novel ways. “We wanted to show how people interpret [Western hip-hop] differently and recreate it using their own cultural background and traditions,” Wang said...