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...children that she started liking musicals.” Starting in high school, Hill became serious about musical theater. Under the guidance of James Thornton, the chair of the Shaker Heights High School’s Theatre Arts Department, Hill worked to develop self-awareness for physical theater and movement on stage and, for his senior project, staged a one-man cabaret. “Doing your own cabaret is one of the hardest things,” Hill says, comparing performing in musicals to performing in a cabaret. “There’s no one else...
...very traditional dancer, but says her time here has allowed her to develop a greater appreciation for modern dance. Her style of choreography has evolved as a result of this appreciation. Classical and modern are “two completely different aesthetics, two completely different forms of movement,” Schreier says. “I need both at this point in my life.” “The amount of sheer star power that’s come to Harvard in the past four years that I’ve been able to experience has really...
...they like to put pieces together,” Nationals routines pack the punch of three discrete styles—jazz, pom, and hip-hop—in under two minutes. Yet the judging rubrics don’t leave a lot of room for individual interpretation: movement must be hard-hitting and in unison all of the time. “Even jazz and hip-hop are reduced to such a tight-looking form of dance that everything looks like pom,” Malin S. von Euler-Hogan ’10 says, referring to the competitive dance...
...first single from Portishead’s new album, “Third.”More than 10 years after their eponymous second album, the prospect of a third Portishead studio release seemed something less than viable. After all, trip-hop was a movement firmly entrenched in the 90s, petering out with Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine” in 1998. Without a cultural groundswell like that of the original Bristol scene to inspire a new direction for the sound, Portishead seemed destined to gather dust alongside the decade’s other forgotten greats...
Wright's journey to black liberation theology lay through civil rights turmoil and debates about racial identity. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son and grandson of preachers. He enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, for the first time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave...