Word: pecks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...music—if you could call the sound of naked feet stomping in water “music”—starts, and Peck encourages the fledgling CitySteppers to “take a nice, brisk walk through and among each other...
...Twenty-five years ago, Peck founded CityStep, an undergraduate-run dance program for local Cambridge students that, according to its stated mission, serves as “a medium for self-expression, a method to enhance self-esteem, and a means to mutual understanding...
...Peck now stands in the front of the dance studio at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center, surveying the CitySteppers who hope to carry out their mission in the next few months. Garbed in a black cotton long-sleeved shirt and matching sweatpants, Peck nods vigorously with encouragement as the CitySteppers start to break away from the circle...
...Take up the whole space,” Peck says, drawing out her vowels with exaggerated emphasis. “You own this space to go freely—free up your body to really sail through the space...
...space keeps expanding,” Peck continues, now twirling on the tips of her darkly-painted toes. “You can’t believe how graceful you are, moving in and out of these bodies. Free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free!” Leaving her choreography and directing projects in New York for the weekend, Peck returned to her alma mater to instruct a workshop on creativity in dance expression for the budding CityStep teachers. Underneath her wavy mass of dark hair, Peck’s eyes light up behind her glasses...