Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Remember...elegance, distinction, and aristocracy!" The last tense words of a renowned New York choreographer before the curtain rises, opening his last ballet? Almost. Helen McGehee, visiting instructor at the Harvard Summer Dance program and former soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company, preps her students before they perform a piece from her own repertory. But these students are Summer School students, and the stage is a second floor studio in Agassiz...
...great '40s tap dancer, leads students in the study of his art. And Iris M. Fangar, a dance critic and director of the Harvard Summer Dance Center teaches two courses, "Writing for Dance," and "Dance History." And this is just a sampling of the variety the Harvard Summer Dance Program has to offer...
Nelson Goodman, former professor of philosophy at Harvard, originated the Harvard Summer Dance Program seven years ago, Fanger said...
Goodman felt that the University was an appropriate setting for creative activity and dreamed of a dance center, now realized in the summer dance program, Fangar said...
Students can work with a choreographer in action, see their own teachers perform, and perform themselves, Fangar said, while the teachers can experiment on many eager bodies. The Summer School appreciates the activities generated by the dance program, she added...