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...meets me on the third floor of the Carpenter Center, with the low afternoon sun streaming through the large plate-glass windows. She has recently been awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts by the Office for the Arts (OFA). She wears a black military flight suit. Her pinstriped pants hang on a hanger in one window. She walks with a determined step, her feet set wide...
...Dance Program of Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), dance may be the universal language, but speech and images are the universal communicants. “Dancers’ Viewpointe VI,” a two-act recital that spanned styles from classical ballet to jazzy modern, interspersed informative film-clips and spoken introductions to serve the dual purpose of educating viewers on the show’s content and cleverly distracting them from pauses between numbers. The vision of Artistic Director Elizabeth Bergman, the performance ran April 21 to 23. The recital was divided into two acts, with...
...will be there after you.”PUTTING THE “A” IN FASObviously, Knep’s residency represents a highly interdisciplinary project, and could potentially raise eyebrows among some medical and artistic purists. But, surprisingly, faculty and administrators seem to be on-board.The OFA stresses the interdisciplinary nature of both art and medical science. “OFA is multidisciplinary; we serve all art forms,” says Cathleen McCormick, director of programs at the OFA. “Systems Biology is multidisciplinary; it’s a new field in Biology...
...think there is a lot to offer at Harvard, musically, although sometimes you have to work a little harder to create the experience that you want.”The landscape has not been completely devoid of resources. The Office For the Arts at Harvard (OFA) offers a Music Lessons Subsidies Program, which provides assistance for approved students to take private lessons, but subsidies are generally capped at $250 per semester. Peter Anderegg calls the program well-intentioned, but grossly inadequate.“The Music Lesson Subsidies Program is entirely insufficient for students who are preparing for professional careers...
...doesn’t begin to describe it,” according to Time Magazine.Don Byron may not be well-known among Harvard students, but he’s developed a reputation in the jazz world for ceaselessly shattering musical boundaries. This weekend, the Harvard Office For the Arts (OFA) and the Harvard Jazz Bands are bringing the 47-year-old clarinetist to campus as an Artist-in-Residence for the OFA’s ongoing “Learning with Performers” series. Byron is a rare breed of jazzman. Few choose to specialize in the clarinet...