Word: pecks
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Working closely with Harvard's most talented dancers, composers, musicians, and technicians, Peck directed and choreographed Citystep performances in which schoolchildren performed on stage alongside Harvard undergraduates. In the last two years, the Citystep troupe has performed at the 350th Stadium Celebration in September and the Boston Shakespeare Theater...
...last two years Peck has nursed Citystep along. But at tonight's black-tie benefit for Citystep--featuring the campus band Robespierre and singer Fiona Anderson '88 in the Charles Hotel--Peck will not be appearing as the program's director/choreographer for the first time...
This year Peck has turned Citystep's reigns over to three undergraduates and is gradually giving up her baby. Campus observers are wondering whether Peck's dream of bringing a Harvard arts program into the public schools can survive her departure...
...With Peck's departure, other things about Citystep have changed. The tasks she used to do alone, for instance, are now shared by all Citystep members...
...biggest difference from the first two years of the troupe's existence is the stronger emphasis on teaching this year, members say. The first year, Peck taught every class in every school herself with the aid of 15 Harvard students. Last year, teaching teams under her direction went out to the schools and choreographed some original numbers, as Peck tried to phase herself out of Citystep...