Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DANCE IS TO PLAY, and to play is to be a kid. This is the message of CityStep, a dance theater production directed and choreographed by Sabrina T. Peck '84. The CityStep company, composed of 16 Harvard undergraduates, has combined forces with Cambridge public school children to produce a charming and witty dance extravaganza. As if this were not enough of a display of unique talent, the music is original as well, providing a particularly expressive accompaniment for the entire range of dances...
...general level, CityStep explores the question of what it means to be a kid growing up in the city. Fortunately, Peck doesn't use this theme as a spring board for heavy moralization Rather she seems just to have observed normal city school kids and to have captured their actions in dance. The choreography is sensitive to exactly how little children work. The dance entitled "Three Boys" is more a game in a school yard than a formal dance with conscious steps. It is about playing and skipping, fighting and pushing--all the essentials of a grade school friendship. Clad...
Citystep, a children dance troupe under the direction of Sabrina T Peck '84, has been bringing Harvard students and kids from the Agassiz, Longfellow, Fletcher and King elementary schools together for two years...
...some money. I would love to do this for a salary," said Peck. "You don't know how many kids there are, what kind of impact we can make...
...work on this. It's step, hop, step, hop, step behind, bum, bum," says Peck in measured time, hopping around Alexis with her hands clasped behind her back. The rest of the class watches, singing along with the music and dancing Alexis' part themselves to the side of the room...