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...last year’s American College Dance Festival (ACDFA), a trio choreographed by Alaly was selected to be performed at ACDFA’s national gala in June 2004. And last summer, HCDE was also invited to perform at the legendary Jacob’s Pillow Theater in Becket, MA, one of the most well-regarded modern dance venues, a highly unusual accomplishment for non-professional student dancers...
Alaly doubts that such support would be enough to keep student dance groups from becoming restrictive. She maintains that even the chance to perform in student-run dance groups has become increasingly competitive due to the higher-level dancers Harvard continues to attract in greater numbers...
...There’s more classes open to students, but there’s not as many performing opportunities for everyone because most are by audition,” she says. For instance, Harvard Ballet Company (HBC), a student group with which Alaly has been significantly involved, has responded to Harvard’s growing numbers of increasingly talented student dancers by becoming more selective about who gets to perform which kinds of dance pieces, and in deciding who gets to perform...
...member of HBC, I have been generally satisfied with the roles in which I have been cast. However, every semester I hear the complaints of friends who desire to perform more complex roles than the ones which they have been given, and thoroughly believe they are capable of doing so. They bemoan the fact that that the prominent, technically demanding roles often go to the same small group of elite dancers, even when they say many other company members are equally capable of performing these roles...
Sure, these indie-rockers are entertainers, and good ones at that, but placing them in a museum setting reminds listeners that they are artists, first and foremost, and paints them in just such a light. “Having them perform outside the clubs gives them a different framework,” notes Hirsch, delighting in the obvious truth of his statement...