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...student committee, Dance Program staff, the OFA, and Harvard administrators eventually agreed to convert a small basketball court inside the QRAC into a new dance center, committing $4 million to the construction project...
...March 21, several senior deans of the Harvard University administration informed the OFA that construction of the new dance center would begin over undergraduate Spring Break, still without air conditioning. However, after weeks of vocal dissent from the student committee, Dance Program administrators, and OFA staff, the [finance offices of] the Faculty of Arts and Sciences finally agreed to put air conditioning back into the construction plans. Bergmann, Larson, Weiss, and Hilby received this information last Tuesday morning, to the delight of my fellow dancers...
...Dance Program will continue to utilize its other studio, Director’s Studio, which is located in the OFA building at 74 Mt. Auburn...
Student dancers’ concerns about insufficient rehearsal space may be partially due to the recent rapid growth in their sheer numbers. Bergmann says that when the OFA last investigated dance participation at Harvard in fall of 2002, they estimated participation in Harvard’s 23 student dance groups and various open classes to be 700 undergraduates, an astonishing 10 percent of the undergraduate population. She estimates that an up-to-date count would reveal an even larger number. In the past five years, enrollment in the OFA’s dance classes alone has doubled to approximately...
Since the OFA classes that I and other undergraduates take are also open to graduate students and other Harvard affiliates, this enrollment increase is not due to undergraduate interest alone. However, the majority of class-takers are undergraduates. Hilby says that several years ago her student committee estimated that approximately 20 percent of female undergraduates participate in dance classes or student dance groups...