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...final piece ends “American Grace” on a whimsical note with Mark Morris’s “Polka.” The dancers execute Morris’s visually exciting choreography with enthusiasm, and the image that Keller and Kenney leave us with—one of all the performers united in a circle, evoking a primal sense of community in their movements—elegantly describes the unity of the show they have bound together thematically...
...There are 20 spandex-clad undergraduates working on Mark Morris’ “Polka,” a ring-around-the-rosy piece. And who’s that bundle of flailing musculature smiling at center stage...
...piece, but is forced to look through slits in the wall to the large wood room in which it is housed. The room is reminiscent of a junk shed, filled with thousands of albums marked “R. Dennehy” ranging from “25 Polka Greats” to Mendelssohn.Paint cans, light bulbs, broken chandeliers, and about 15 old radio speakers complete the outfit. The artists then used Discmans, videocams, and binaural sound equipment to create the accompanying “opera.”The arm of one of five record players lifts...
...clowns actually wore bowties. Now, it seems that every time I walk to class I am confronted by some man wearing a bow tie whistling a piano sonata. It’s very strange. Harvard kids also seem to prefer their bowties in garish prints, like green with pink polka dots, or some mildly ironic permutation on traditionally preppy graphic themes, like embroidered anchors...
Finally, designer/model Jamie Renee Smith ’08 exploded through the Sanctum’s double doors, fighting off illness to strut her red and black polka dotted stuff. She didn’t trip, but her ensemble included elbow pads, just in case...