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Choreographer Noémi Lafrance is about to take a big plunge. Her latest work, Agora II, is set in a cavernous empty pool in Brooklyn, N.Y., where more than 70 dancers, ages 8 to 60, will dance, sing, run, frolic, argue, embrace, cycle and hula-hoop. Spectators are expected to take part--they'll get cues during the performance via text messages to their cell phones. Although the show opens in a few days, Lafrance hasn't quite perfected her method of simultaneously transmitting messages to hundreds, possibly thousands, of audience members. But leaping over obstacles is her signature move...
...Peggy L. Ewald, Kolbe’s high school and Paralympic coach. The U.S. Paralympic swimming team won 44 medals in Beijing. Paralympic swimmers are classified according to the severity of their disability, from S1, the most disabled, to S10, the least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool, she has to use a wheelchair to get around. Her coaches describe her as a woman with a “positive outlook and contagious smile” who was willing to try whatever they threw at her. When she swam for Harvard’s varsity team...
...SEAS has also seen an increase in its graduate applicant pool and has increased the size of its Ph.D. classes...
Sometimes coming home isn’t so sweet. For the Harvard men’s water polo team this weekend, Blodgett Pool instead dealt it a sweep. The Crimson lost all three of its games while hosting the ECAC Championships, finishing in last place among the eight team field. For a squad that began the season in promising fashion with a 2-1 record in three road games, Harvard suffered a harsh reality check at the hands of its conference foes. The Crimson fell to Johns Hopkins and Iona on Saturday before closing the tournament with a loss...
...defense tomorrow.” Friday’s practice will indeed prove important, as Harvard prepares to host the ECAC Championships over the weekend. Over Saturday and Sunday the Crimson will enjoy the No. three seed as it makes its season debut in the welcoming confines of Blodgett Pool. However, if the defense cannot find new life at home and begin limiting scoring chances, Harvard may find itself in many more close contests this season. —Staff writer Max Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...