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...Oswald’s treacherous magician Osmond (Benjamin G. Gallant ’11). HEMS had a twofold task: Putting on a production about a 5th-century Briton while maintaining the 17th-century context in which it was originally created, by composer Henry Purcell and poet John Dryden. This balancing act was reflected in exaggeratedly graceful gestures, the use of the harpsichord and the theorbo (a string instrument more commonly used in the Baroque period), and the costumes, designed by Elisa M. Olivieri ’08. The 17th-century English audience expected actors to be dressed in the latest...
...censored for centuries. Indeed, it began when he was 19: Middleton's poem Microcynicon (1599) was burned in the yard of St. Paul's cathedral by order of the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury. We don't know why, but it includes a description of the poet's relationship with a male transvestite, or "black hermaphrodite": "But truth to tell a man or woman whether,/ I cannot say, she's excellent in either...
Paulus Berensohn, author of “Finding One’s Way With Clay,” recently came to the Harvard Dance Center to lead the workshop “Clay Body, Human Body: the practice of art”. The self-described weaver, bookmaker, journal-keeper, poet, doodler, dancer, and teacher doesn’t have a cell phone or e-mail address, but FM was able to catch up with the multi-talented guru—but only after he attended to a mass of adoring fans, the last of which presented Berensohn with an apple...
...poet, what’s the word or line you’ve found most beautiful or affecting...
...solitary aquamarine chair in the middle of the bare, black Harvard Dance Studio did not know what was coming to it when nationally touring dancer and poet Claire Porter took the stage on Saturday night—and neither did the audience. For the subsequent hour and half, Porter performed “Namely, Muscles,” an original piece in which she danced while reading aloud over 30 poems about muscles. Porter’s performance was often eccentric, but presented a profound and creative work of mixed media.The work consisted of Porter’s portrayal...