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...Orchard, who currently directs the ART, Cambridge’s only professional acting troupe which shares the Loeb Drama Center with undergraduates, remembers the first time the ART proposed adding some dramatic arts courses for undergraduates. It was at a Faculty meeting in the early 1980s, and Orchard recalls one currently retired professor who stood up and said: “We don’t train butchers, so why should we be training artists...
...arts community at Harvard, and to discuss their long-term visions of an ideal artistic space for Harvard’s actors, dancers, musicians and visual artists. Present were David P. Illingworth ’71, associate dean of Harvard College; Jack Megan, director, Office for the Arts; Robert Orchard, executive director, American Repertory Theatre; Jen Mergel ’98, tutor in arts at Adams House; Jeremy B. Reff ’04 and Adrienne M. Minster ’04. The panel was moderated by Crimson Arts Chair Jacob Hale Russell...
...Orchard: It’s actually an exciting mix, notwithstanding the space problems, having a building in which undergraduates are coursing their way through at various times of the day, and there’s a graduate program called the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and then professionals as well. As an ideal environment for different groups, different people, different ages, different interests, I think it’s an appropriate mix; as a space that accommodates that, it’s certainly compromised by lack of space. We’ve actually looked at adding a third level...
...Orchard: I’d like to amplify that, too, because I think that the aesthetic trends are also demonstrating a desire for more collaboration among the forms. I’m finding that younger generations are really less interested in traditional forms and more interested in hybrid forms, where music and dance and theater and visual arts collide in interesting ways. To have an environment in which all of these groups are isolated from one another would be unfortunate. I often talk about an ideal space that could function as a dance space, as a theater space...
...made a commitment to provide a professional director from its ranks of resident directors every other year and will work closely with the HRDC and the Office for the Arts in helping to identify an outside director in alternating years,” ART director Robert Orchard said in a statement...