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Harvard’s Dance Program of the OFA presents its annual spring concert, featuring the work of student choreographers as well as professionals in the Boston dance scene, including Lazlo Berdo, Elizabeth Bergmann (director of the Dance Program), Jodi Allen and Adrienne Hawkins. See modern, ballet, jazz, and more; students and teachers dance together in this varied performance. Runs March 18 through March 20. Tickets $10 regular, $8 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Reiman Center for the Performing Arts in Radcliffe Yard...
...numbers, however, can describe the power and presence of this living legend when he speaks in the flesh. Fortunately, many students at Harvard had this extraordinary opportunity last week, when the Office for the Arts (OFA) brought Jones to campus as the newest participant of the Kayden Visiting Artist Program. Jones’ connection to Harvard is extensive—he received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1997, the same year his daughter, Rashida, graduated from the College. Jones also persuaded AOL Time Warner to endow the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music chair in Harvard?...
...costs. Some improvements have already been made. The Council’s new online common grant application is a great boon for arts groups. It allows these groups to apply for grants from multiple organizations—such as the Ann Radcliffe Trust and the Office for the Arts (OFA)—with just one application...
...learned from Stephanie Troisi, however, a program associate at the OFA, many grant-giving organizations still don’t talk to each other about which groups have received their grants, despite the new conveniently central and streamlined process. “It just hasn’t happened because we all have different purposes, but that doesn’t mean it won’t in the future,” she said...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones receive no funding from the University, said Kathie S. Koo ’04, president of the group. The conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is paid partly by the OFA, but the group is otherwise independently funded, said HRO President Ethan L. Gray...